I don't believe this assessment comes from a professional Clojurist. Emacs is common but not necessary -- you can easily reach for Calva in Visual Studio Code.

I don't believe this assessment comes from a professional Clojurist. Emacs is common but not necessary -- you can easily reach for Calva in Visual Studio Code. Leiningen provides a tested and very accessible build environment. But I prefer the Cognitect tools deps toolchain instead, which does have a larger learning curve. Again, the developer can choose. The author and many in the comments decry JSON parsing pain in Scala. JSON is handled elegantly in Clojure -- while Jackson (neatly wrapped by Cheshire) has its occasional CVEs to wrangle, you can instead employ clojure.data.json which is performant and free of Java transitive dependency bloat and CVE surface. The transitive dependency hell mentioned in the article seems to be exacerbated by Scala tooling, though Java inter-dependencies can be complex and difficult to manage in any JVM language. I have found Clojure's tools deps toolchain to give the most elegant dependency management experience I have experienced on the JVM.