This newcomer experience felt to me like someone trying too much too soon. I picked enclojure ide for netbeans, and started it in 10 minutes. If I did not have

This newcomer experience felt to me like someone trying too much too soon. I picked enclojure ide for netbeans, and started it in 10 minutes. If I did not have netbeans, I'd just have to install it, and add the plugin. Using the repl was as easy as right clicking and choosing from a menu. Comparing to other newcommer experiences (on linux os): - Python: $ python (it is installed by default) - Ruby: $ irb (it is installed by default with high probability, if not apt-get install ruby first) - Java: download eclipse/netbeans/intellij, create new project, that's it. Newcommers don't need build tools (let it be rake, rubygems, sbt, gradle, ant, maven, ivy, sake, leiningen, etc). Of course, I agree that a getting started guide should pick one tool (possibly an open source one, but on this case all of them are open source), and guide you with it. Also, installing clojure with a repl client easy executable as irb/python's on linux package management systems (with the proper java dependencies) would help tremendously.