As someone just playing with Clojure for curiosity, I agree that it's hard to find a way through the thicket of available tooling & library options. On the oth

As someone just playing with Clojure for curiosity, I agree that it's hard to find a way through the thicket of available tooling & library options. On the other hand, to start with just picking something reasonably mainstream (in Clojure terms) is a perfectly good strategy. The choice will be poorly informed, but that's a given if you're a beginner in any case. And such a beginner isn't really in a place anyway to make this choice for a significant project (for any platform/language). Once an initial choice is made, it seems to me (so far) pretty easy with leinigen templates & plugins just to get started on something. Time from tool setup to coding hasn't been any longer for me than other things I've learned in recent years.