There is a fairly nice Clojure build/dependency tool called Leiningen. It uses maven repositories under the hood but you usually don't have to worry about that.

There is a fairly nice Clojure build/dependency tool called Leiningen. It uses maven repositories under the hood but you usually don't have to worry about that. There are libraries in contrib that wrap JDBC database access so you don't have to interface with any of the Java classes. clojuredocs.org documents core and contrib very well in a non-javadoc style. So by and large, yes. Of course Java still shines through from time to time - I'm not sure that can be helped. But overall things have improved and are still getting better.