You don't need an IDE for Clojure, IMO, huge IDEs like intellij/cursive are anti-clojure, Clojure culture encourages to write programs composed of small, modula

You don't need an IDE for Clojure, IMO, huge IDEs like intellij/cursive are anti-clojure, Clojure culture encourages to write programs composed of small, modular components that can be tested individually, so mostly you keep things in your head, and if you haven't work with it in a while, is easy pick up again, Clojure doesn't need a "dot operator" to autocomplete to million of different API classes/methods. Rich Hickey makes a comparison here: https://youtu.be/VSdnJDO-xdg?t=2943 https://youtu.be/VSdnJDO-xdg?t=2943 The thing is that most Clojure users are/were heavy Java users and they feel awkward without their IDEs and also some have a big java project that hey mix with clojure.