Cursive IDE Review

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An expensive IntelliJ plugin for Clojure(Script).

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Pros

Pro
Built on IntelliJ

Includes automated code inspections and seamless Java integration.

Pro
Paredit-style structural editing

Just like emacs.

Pro
Written in Clojure (mostly)

They eat their own dog food, so to speak. And it integrates properly with the Clojure ecosystem tools, like Leiningen and nREPL.

Pro
clojure.test support

Cons

Con
Expensive (but only for commercial development work)

Why pay $99/year when Clojure-Kit is free?

Con
It's based on IntelliJ

IntelliJ is a text editor. A code oriented text editor, but just that. It has the feel of something that was gee-wiz in the '80s. The worst of emacs without the functionality.

Con
The "free" version is non-free.

The "free" license is only for non-commercial use. Cursive does have a "free"-as-in-beer license, but it's not free as in speech. There are open-source alternative without this restriction.