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EDN with a few added reader tags is great for configuration. I love Duct[1] configs: its just EDN, but it adds tags for including other files, reading environment variables, referencing other keys in the config (that's added by Integrant[2] not Duct itself): https://github.com/duct-framework/duct/wiki/Configuration [1] https://github.com/duct-framework/duct [2] https://github.com/weavejester/integrant

Have you tried using Cider under Emacs? Or Cursive? Both of those have debuggers that allow you to add a breakpoint in your code and then evaluate arbitrary expressions. They also allow you to step through each form and see the return value. There are also a few projects for adding in debug REPLs, but those seem to have fallen by the wayside lately, perhaps supplanted by debuggers. You might also want to talk a look at Duct (https://github.com/weavejester/duct), which is my ongoing and still early attempt at solving some of the framework problems with Clojure. If you create a template via Duct, like so: lein new duct foobar +site +cljs Then you some of the things you're asking for. The namespaces of your application are loaded when you start `lein repl`. You get a `(reset)` function that reloads your code, restarts your application a

I can personally second this. It is pretty quick to get a micro service up and running with Clojure. My team has been using the Duct[0] generators which set up a nice scaffolding. It also includes some decent examples writing components, models and endpoints. Plus swagger is free out of the box. [0]: https://github.com/weavejester/duct