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Add to SafariWhen comparing Spacemacs vs Cursive IDE, the Slant community recommends Spacemacs for most people. In the question“What is the best IDE for Clojure?” Spacemacs is ranked 4th while Cursive IDE is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Spacemacs is:
Spacemacs is just a well-configured Emacs distribution with community-sourced best in class plugins and layers selected to take the setup pain out of Emacs. Evil mode gives the Vim bindings and modes for fast editing, while Helm makes everything discoverable to make learning to be more productive simple and unintrusive.
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Pros
Pro Preconfigured emacs distro
Spacemacs is just a well-configured Emacs distribution with community-sourced best in class plugins and layers selected to take the setup pain out of Emacs. Evil mode gives the Vim bindings and modes for fast editing, while Helm makes everything discoverable to make learning to be more productive simple and unintrusive.
Pro VIM Keybindings with EMACS ecosystem
EMACS ecosystem and language support is best in show. The EMACS is a great IDE that was in search of a good text editor. Spacemacs makes EMACS have a good text editor.
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 Emacs is slow
Emacs is single threaded which means that if you enable all the great features you might be used to from Vim, it will run noticeably slower which can be quite frustrating at times. There are efforts at a concurrent Emacs, but they don't seem to be going anywhere.
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.
