Yeah there are a bunch of different ways to start Clojure with a REPL and/or swank server running. Maven, Leiningen, and cake are all build tools that also do d

Yeah there are a bunch of different ways to start Clojure with a REPL and/or swank server running. Maven, Leiningen, and cake are all build tools that also do dependency management - great when you're working on a complex project but have some amount of setup overhead for their project descriptors. cljr is a different option that lets you start a REPL anywhere, with no project descriptor, and also takes care of setting up your JVM classpath with any dependencies you've installed via 'cljr install'. All of these tools encourage running the JVM outside of emacs, rather than as an inferior-lisp, and have some command line option that starts a swank server on a specified port. After that you can just do M-x slime-connect and get hacking as usual =)