Appendix 1Editor Support
Editor support for Clojure is evolving rapidly, so some of the information here may be out-of-date by the time you read this. For the latest information, see the Getting Started[67] page in the community wiki, which has child pages for a number of different dev environments.
Clojure code is concise and expressive. As a result, editor support is not quite as important as for some other languages. However, you will want an editor that can at least indent code correctly and can match parentheses.
While writing the book, we used Emacs plus Jeffrey Chu’s clojure-mode.[68] Emacs support for Clojure is quite good, but if you are not already an Emacs user, you might prefer to start with an editor you are familiar with from ...
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