I've been a vim user for a number of years and have fiddled with building in Clojure support at different times with repl support, syntax highlighting and other basics. My success was varying and incomplete. Tooling has been a barrier for me learning Clojure. Half the time I want to learn or practice Clojure, I remember gaps in my tooling. Subsequently, I spend a few hours yak-shaving to improve it.

I've contemplated learning Emacs because of the general praise for its workflow in the Clojure community. I even know some basic emacs from bash scripting. Switching just seemed like it would add another learning block to an already long list of tools to learn. Cursive, on the other hand, is based on IntelliJ, which is familiar to me through RubyMine.

Thanks for taking the time to write up about Cursive. You just convinced me to finally install it and give it a shot.