I suspect there are a lot of clojure fans here — wanted to see if there are any books/guides that you could point me towards to get started with it. (Background mainly python and JS, not a lot of FP experience)

Clojure for the brave and true, and the Clojure koans got me started!

@Cole thanks! any tips on how necessary emacs is? this looks useful: https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva

I never got too into emacs despite learning both Clojure and Elixir in the past, but it hasn't ever been a huge issue. It may depend on how you set up your project. If you are using Clojure on the JVM, then I might recommend Cursive for IntelliJ. Generally, though, since Clojure is not statically typed, you can move between editors pretty effortlessly and use basic go-to-def tools to achieve similar experiences. When I was using Cursive, I had a sizeable amount of work in Java as well, so they all lived happily in IntelliJ. If I were to start with ClojureScript/Clojure only codebase, I would look into "Parinfer" plugins for your editor of choice. Parinfer started as emacs only, but it gained a lot of attention and has some equivalent ported to most editors at this point!

I started with "joy of clojure", and I use vim, so emacs is not needed (don't tell the clojure inquisition about my deviations 😛)

Yeah I am a huge clojure fan. The first few versions of Yazz Pilot were written in Clojure for the first 3 years. Only switched to JavaScript in 2016. Overall I did five years of clojure. That is what got me interested in light table and then Eve of course. Happy old days :)

Joy of Clojure is still on my shelf, also worked in vim (then wrote my own tooling 😄). I’ve been working in Clojure full time for 2-3 years with no signs of slowing.