TL;DR: Two (OK, maybe three) clicks and you are evaluating Clojure code in a full blown editor environment running in your browser. And that's where you will start learning Clojure.
Guides for beginners picking up Clojure often start with you installing stuff which also brings on choosing the tooling to use and what editor, and what plugins, and so on. This can throw you off track, and reportedly feels a bit overwhelming for many people. It also often takes you via a REPL prompt that you later are not supposed to use very much. (You are supposed to use the REPL as it lives in the Clojure files building up your application.)
Leveraging Gitpod, VS Code, the Clojure extension Calva (which I created), and Clojure itself, I here take the approach of guiding you directly to the mode of Interactive Programming that we Clojurians never stop talking about. It is in this mode you then learn the basics of the Clojure language. The bet is that you will like it so much that you are eager to spend the energy needed to figure out what to install to create yourself a productive and ergonomic Clojure development environment.
This is the first version, and just released. There'll be dragons. Knowing this, anyone here curious enough about Clojure to help me test how this works for you as a guide to start with the language?
Guides for beginners picking up Clojure often start with you installing stuff which also brings on choosing the tooling to use and what editor, and what plugins, and so on. This can throw you off track, and reportedly feels a bit overwhelming for many people. It also often takes you via a REPL prompt that you later are not supposed to use very much. (You are supposed to use the REPL as it lives in the Clojure files building up your application.)
Leveraging Gitpod, VS Code, the Clojure extension Calva (which I created), and Clojure itself, I here take the approach of guiding you directly to the mode of Interactive Programming that we Clojurians never stop talking about. It is in this mode you then learn the basics of the Clojure language. The bet is that you will like it so much that you are eager to spend the energy needed to figure out what to install to create yourself a productive and ergonomic Clojure development environment.
This is the first version, and just released. There'll be dragons. Knowing this, anyone here curious enough about Clojure to help me test how this works for you as a guide to start with the language?