The main idea is that you don't need an IDE. Most Ides just copy and paste stuff for you into the repl, believing that you're too stupid to learn the commands inside the repl yourself and so they'll do it for you and you'll just learn a bunch of hotkeys. As if learning the hotkeys was easier than just learning the commands. I don't mean to offend anybody but this never made sense to me. Just learn the commands, then you can use the commands from whatever editor you want without having to relearn a bunch of hotkeys switching from emacs to vs code.
Being a VIM person, I imagine you're pretty comfortable in the terminal and so will not have a problem just using the repl in one window with vim in the other. Then I just have a few plugins to make it easier to copy and paste between vim and the repl.
I will say this, getting an LSP client for Clojure does help, but between that and syntax highlighting I'd say you're good to go.
Here is my common lisp setup easily adaptable to clojure: https://blog.djha.skin/p/developing-common-lisp-using-gnu-sc...
My thoughts on emacs versus vim and a better approach to trying to get them to be useful for things like common Lisp and Clojure: https://blog.djha.skin/p/emacs-users-im-okay-i-promise/
The main idea is that you don't need an IDE. Most Ides just copy and paste stuff for you into the repl, believing that you're too stupid to learn the commands inside the repl yourself and so they'll do it for you and you'll just learn a bunch of hotkeys. As if learning the hotkeys was easier than just learning the commands. I don't mean to offend anybody but this never made sense to me. Just learn the commands, then you can use the commands from whatever editor you want without having to relearn a bunch of hotkeys switching from emacs to vs code.
Being a VIM person, I imagine you're pretty comfortable in the terminal and so will not have a problem just using the repl in one window with vim in the other. Then I just have a few plugins to make it easier to copy and paste between vim and the repl.
I will say this, getting an LSP client for Clojure does help, but between that and syntax highlighting I'd say you're good to go.