get-started-with-clojure VS dram

Yep your experience is (sadly) not even remotely unusual, and Cognitect have repeatedly demonstrated that they don’t care about this issue (which will come back to bite them as the community stagnates).

The “best” advice I have for Clojure beginners is to follow this guide: https://calva.io/get-started-with-clojure/, which will ultimately land you in a solid VSCode-based IDE environment for Clojure.

That’s not how I personally like to approach a new language mind you (REPL from the command line plz), but I’ve pretty much given up trying to get Clojure beginners started there as there are just too many moving parts that can go wrong, and unjustifiable frictions.

https://calva.io/get-started-with-clojure/ (Do this first) https://calva.io/getting-started/

You're 2 clicks away from having a fully-featured clojure environment, thanks to Calva (vscode clojure plugin) running in the browser:

- click here[0]

- click on SSO provider

More information here[1]. And of course, you might also simply use the Calva plugin with VSCode. That's a bit more than 2 clicks, maybe 5?

[0] https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/PEZ/get-started-with-c...

Dram (where Getting Started REPLs are authored, I want to make it a more general infrastructure for other Clojure IDEs to consume as well)

What happens when you use these commands is that Calva will download the minimal needed files from the Dram repository into a folder in your TMP directory, open some of the files, and then start the REPL and connect it.