calva

> One of the in-practice problems I've seen a lot of in Clojure is that people aren't sure how to get a REPL set up The most common "problem" I've seen with people starting to learn Clojure, is that they try to use the REPL approach you'd use in Ruby, Python or NodeJS, namely writing and running small snippets in a standalone REPL prompt, in another window/pane, then copy-paste that into their editor when they're ready. Then repeat that process while working. While what you actually want to do, is connect your editor to the REPL, put the REPL in the background then evaluate code with a keyboard shortcut from your editor, and see the results in your editor. Once you've taught this to people, their eyes open. For vim/neovim users, Conjure is great at giving a nice environment quickly and easily. https://github.com/Olical/conjure For Visual

there is a critical mass of devs who want clojure[script] but not emacs: https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva

I don't think this is true. I don't think racket-mode has a big community around it, and sadly doesn't come even close to slime [1] or cider [2], both very feature full dev envs for Emacs. Magic racket is very bare bones and can't compare to integrations like Calva [3]. So I saw someone down voted me... just to be clear, I use Racket despite having to work against a poor tooling experience, when comparing to say, CL or Clojure. I want Racket to succeed in industry, so is not like I'm complaining. I'm pointing out what I think is a weakness, maybe a blind spot by the team, since they seem to be very attached to Dr Racket! 1: https://common-lisp.net/project/slime/ 2: https://cider.mx/ 3: https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva

This looks great, I'm looking forward to giving it a go! Since I've found myself using VSCode pretty much full time now, my current workflow is to use the Calva plug-in [0] which provides a nice REPL amongst many other awesome features. [0]: https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva

I never used LightTable, but based on the videos I've watched I believe the "Calva" plugin for VS Code has the same Clojure insta-REPL functionality. https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva