Sorry if my above comment sounded like gate-keeping, that was not my intention! One of Clojure's biggest downsides IMO is the barrier to entry, with the relatively complex tooling setup being one barrier. I wrote Clojure for a long time before I finally had a powerful tooling environment, and I wish I'd discovered it sooner.

Your specific setup will depend on your primary editor. For emacs, the go-to is https://cider.mx/. E.g., with my cursor beside an s-expression, I can hit a couple keys to evaluate and view the output. Don't give up!