Calva
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Dec 13, 2025first mention
Jun 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Learning that https://calva.io/paredit/ exists and moving your cursor along the AST”
“Calva extension has great”
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“the most excellent Calva extension which give me REPL-everywhere in my editing experience”
Clojure developeron “We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Mode…”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Threads where it came up
- We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments 2 mentions
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- item 48076815 1 mention
- Data Manipulation in Clojure Compared to R and Python 1 mention
- I Wrote a Scheme in 2025 1 mention
Data: calva.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“Learning that https://calva.io/paredit/ exists and moving your cursor along the AST”
“Simple nREPL server that seems to work with BetterThanTomorrow/calva”
“Calva extension has great”
“There is Calva for VS Code but the community default is emacs and cider”
I love clojure with CIDER but I have heard as a REPL experience it doesn't compare to CL with SLIME. I like emacs as a lisp machine but I know that a big ball of mutable state and functions with side effects on a single thread really doesn't live up to a proper lisp machine.
“the most excellent Calva extension which give me REPL-everywhere in my editing experience”