Clojure editor/IDE recommendations on Mac OS X

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I am starting to learn the Clojure programming language. Are there any recommendations for Clojure editors/IDEs on Mac OS X?

Update 2009-09-23: The Clojure space has changed tremendously since I originally posted this question. Many of the links below, especially those that refer to clojure-mode with Emacs, are out-of-date. The best Clojure IDE I found was the Enclojure Netbeans plugin which was recently released (2009-08-25).

Update 2010-04-30: Another very good article on this subject is Clojure IDEs - The Grand Tour by Lau B. Jensen. Also, for my own clojure development, I have actually moved to Emacs / swank-clojure.

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15 Answers
user_172210

Emacs+SLIME is going to be the most productive if you are going to be spending your time editing Lisp code and not doing much Java.

Paredit is also a must-have since it makes it almost difficult to insert invalid s-expressions. It takes a bit of getting used to, but it is emphatically worth it.

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J_Pablo_Fern225ndez_60680

Rich Hickey uses Aquamacs in all of his demos. He has commented about this, saying that he switched to it after someone created a Clojure mode for Emacs. I have also created a Clojure mode for jEdit.

At the moment, tool support for Clojure is pretty limited. I think you're either stuck with some Emacs variant or jEdit.

Daniel_Spiewak_98150

If you go the emacs route, I highly recommend using clojure-paredit. Paredit takes some getting used to, but it really reinforces the "code is data" notion.

user_404570

Emacs with Slime may be a good choice. See this article that explains a setup.

Jazz_144430

Emacs Carbon with SLIME and clojure-mode works like a charm. I tried Aquamacs before and it feels too different from the command line emacs for me. I really don't like Terminal.app and after months fighting against it I decided to migrate to Carbon.

Phillip_Cal231ado_564240

TextMate is a great editor and has a Lisp bundle, which will suffice for Clojure (there's also an in-progress bundle available here). I've always used TextMate + the Lisp bundle for writing Clojure code.

user_288040

I'm using Vim for Clojure and am enjoying it. I installed the Vim Clojure plugin mentioned in the wiki and also followed the instructions there for making the REPL more user friendly using rlwrap.

Drew_Olson_94340

Bill Clementson has updated his setup.

Vagmi_Mudumbai_6170

I use Clojure on MacOSX for about 3 months. I am very happy with Emacs and use it for more an more tasks. The start was quite hard but now i would say it was worth the efforts to learn emacs. For IntelliJ 10 the La Clojure Plugin has been updated so that it should work now with Clojure 1.2.0 again.

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