Setting up Emacs with swank-js and clojure

Question

I would like to install slime-js but I already have Clojure installed and it is my understanding that Clojure's current Emacs integration will not work with the version of SLIME that swank-js uses. I've tried googling this but keep coming up empty. Has anyone been able to get swank-js and Clojure-mode's nrepl functionality to work well together?

Answer 1

I guess you're talking about swank-js and swank-clojure? I think nrepl-mode does nothing with SLIME. I installed both via MELPA and everything just work.

swank-js and swank-clojure are two SLIME backends that implement the SLIME's protocol. swank-clojure doesn't support newer version of SLIME, and recently became deprecated. nrepl on the other hand has it's own protocol.