I usually use Cider + Emacs for Clojure. Cider let’s you interactively check values and makes error messages more understandable, at least to me. I think that

I usually use Cider + Emacs for Clojure. Cider let’s you interactively check values and makes error messages more understandable, at least to me. I think that many Clojure programmers skip the JVM and use ClojureScript with node. Personally, given my history with Java I find that Lisp + JVM ecosystem is why I use Clojure sometimes instead of Common Lisp.