uncompress the archive and run Eclipse, the executable is inside the eclipse directory download 'Eclipse IDE for Java Developers' from So, probably the best option to start is Eclipse IDE with counterclockwise plugin installed. Both Emacs and Vim have a steep learning curve, and I can't recommend you to learn them at the same time you're learning how to program in Clojure. Many people also use Vim together with VimClojure plugin. Most people use Emacs for Clojure development, but you don't need to (I don't). that's it you have clojure and leiningen running run 'lein repl', it should open a prompt 'user=>' in the terminal run: 'lein deps', it may take some time to download dependencies

edit the file project.clj with any text editor in a terminal, cd into a clean directory Add leiningen directory to your path environment variable. Download this batch file: and place it on the leiningen directory. Create a directory for the leiningen executable

It will take some time while it downloads dependencies.

Make the script exectuable using: 'chmod 755 lein' Place it in a directory, and make sure that directory is in your path If you have any problems, there is more information in leiningen page: The installation procedure changes if you are in a Unix like system or in Windows. Leiningen will help us automating some common tasks like installing dependencies and running the REPL. You can download Java using your system's package manager or going to

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