Slime and Clojure have improved, mainly through clojure-jack-in and ritz. Of course the Common Lisp Slime experience is still better but the essentials are definitely there with Clojure.
There are several heavyweights in the Clojure community that use VIM and have developed good plugins, and Rich never seems to be using SLIME during presentations, so you can definitely get by fine without it.
There are several heavyweights in the Clojure community that use VIM and have developed good plugins, and Rich never seems to be using SLIME during presentations, so you can definitely get by fine without it.