If you want to get started, Clojurists will insist you learn emacs. After all it's so great you must learn it.
Now I have nothing against emacs.
But I don't expect to have to invest significant effort to learn a specific editor in order to use a programming language. No other programming language has this requirement.
I was surprised at how many Clojure users took this as an attack upon emacs. It took some careful explaining to make the point that I have better things to invest my time into, such as building more code in Clojure, rather than learning yet another tool, that does something for which I have other tools already.
There were some great IDEs for Clojure. But they have all fallen into disrepair and being unmaintained.
You might have a biased sample of Clojurists, in my vicinity ~50% use Cursive.
Not sure where you get the disrepair part, Cursive is alive and well and seems to be a sustainable business for the author, and Calva also seems to do be doing well.
It's true that there have been various open source IDE efforts that are dead now (Counterclockwise for Eclipse went the way of Eclipse, Lighttable and Nightcode were probably a bit too experimental / radical)
If you want to get started, Clojurists will insist you learn emacs. After all it's so great you must learn it.
Now I have nothing against emacs.
But I don't expect to have to invest significant effort to learn a specific editor in order to use a programming language. No other programming language has this requirement.
I was surprised at how many Clojure users took this as an attack upon emacs. It took some careful explaining to make the point that I have better things to invest my time into, such as building more code in Clojure, rather than learning yet another tool, that does something for which I have other tools already.
There were some great IDEs for Clojure. But they have all fallen into disrepair and being unmaintained.