When will swank-clojure get it's act together and talk to slime the same way as every other Lisp in the planet? (via @johnfredcee) -- Here is the standard Open Source response: when you contribute the code. Maybe?
Clojure is getting proper debugging in Emacs via slime/swank thanks to @georgejahad : swank-cdt (here, via @tbatchelli) -- (disclosure: that's me) Speaking of the devil (swank-clojure), George Jahad just pushed swank-clojure one step closer to what other lisps can get via Slime, except that this debugger also steps into Clojure's Java sources.
Release the hounds! Slamhound blows your Clojure ns forms to bits and meticulously reconstructs them. (here, via @technomancy) -- This tool, that nicely integrates with Lein and Emacs, will clean your namespace declarations, adding whatever :uses or :requires needed and removing the ones not needed.