> There are plugins for Emacs (nrepl) I *think* nrepl for emacs has been replace...

_pfxa · on March 19, 2014

AFAIK Cider is like SLIME, big and integrated. Emacs nrepl is just the repl connection, and is usually enough (at least, has been enough for me).

craigching · on March 19, 2014

Ok, maybe I'm misunderstanding, but from [1]:

"CIDER (formerly nrepl.el) is the Clojure IDE and REPL for Emacs, built on top of nREPL, the Clojure networked REPL server."

That and the availability of the packages on melpa:

  cider              20140318.... available  Clojure Integrated Development Environment and REPL

And the fact that technomancy's git repository for nrepl.el hasn't been touched in 2 years leads me to believe that cider is the better nREPL choice ;) Be happy to hear that nrepl.el is still maintained and is better in some way than cider, but I don't see cider as being that heavy (at least as compared to SLIME).

[1] -- https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider