Where to start with Clojure

The basics

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Setting up your environments and tools

If you don’t know what IDE to start with, this article might help you make the decision.

Emacs + Slime + swank-clojure — this is the ‘hardcore’ way if you will. The less sadistic way would be to download Emacs and then go here and then here, that is, unless you are an Emacs ninja
VimClojure — a set of plugins for Vim that provide code completion, macro expansion, code evaluation, syntax highlighting, indentation and many more useful goodies for Clojure developers
Netbeans 6.7.1 + Enclojure plugin — free, and very good quality so far. Best place to start if you come from Java IMHO
IntelliJ IDEA 8.x + “La Clojure” plugin — payware, but awesome IDE. The plugin is somewhat broken currently
Eclipse 3.5 + Couterclockwise plugin (formerly known as clojuredev) — free
Setting up Clojure for OS X Leopard
Emacs + Clojure + Slime/Swank + Ubuntu
Cloure Box — If you use MS Windows then this is a good place to start. It will setup a full Clojure development environment, including Emacs and Slime/Swank
ClojureX – A very convenient way to setup (and keep up to date) Clojure on OSX, Linux, Solaris and Windows+Cygwin

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12 Comments to “Where to start with Clojure”

kevin_noonan (Kevin Noonan)

The week-old “Disclojure” news site has an excellent list of resources for Clojure: http://disclojure.org/where-to-start/

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cube_ice (cube_ice)

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Where to start with Clojure | disclojure: all things clojure

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train_boy (train_boy)

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Raju 29 December 2009 at 5:14 am #

Another useful tool for Clojure on Windows is the Clojure Box (http://clojure.bighugh.com/). Much like the Lisp Box it takes away the complexity in setting up Emacs/Associated Add-ons/Clojure while giving you almost everything you need to start working on one of the better setups for Clojure.

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- tbatchelli 29 December 2009 at 9:44 am #
  
  Thanks Raju, I added Clojure Box to the list.
  
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Jeff Heon 10 January 2010 at 8:13 am #

La Clojure is also available for the free community edition of IntelliJ.
http://www.jetbrains.org/

For quick and dirty Clojure with a minimalist UI, there is use waterfront.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/waterfront/files/

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Michael Kohl 25 January 2010 at 9:44 am #

Since you are linking to Marc Reid’s article on setting up Clojure on OS X, I’d like to point out my project ClojureX which is based on what Marc did and which by now is a pretty convenient way to set up Clojure on OS X, Linux, OpenSolaris and Windows (Cygwin):

http://github.com/citizen428/ClojureX

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- tbatchelli 26 January 2010 at 12:14 am #
  
  Thanks Michael. I will add it once I fix Wordpress, since right now it is not letting me edit this page :(
  
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ax 2 February 2010 at 1:38 pm #

if you mention clojure plus emacs, i think you should also mention clojure plus vim: VimClojure . working great here (even on windows)!

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- kotarak 15 March 2010 at 1:27 am #
  
  *bump*
  
  According to a non-representative poll second most used dev env after SLIME. And still missing from almost every list – including this one. :(
  
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  - tbatchelli 15 March 2010 at 1:31 am #
    
    Aaah! I must apologize. Fixing this clear omission right now!
    
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Bin 19 May 2010 at 7:02 am #

Since you are linking to Marc Reid’s article on setting up Clojure on OS X, I’d like to point out my project ClojureX which is based on what Marc did and which by now is a pretty convenient way to set up Clojure on OS X, Linux, OpenSolaris and Windows (Cygwin):
+1

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