Good projects. I have only used Clojure professionally for about 2 years out of the last 15 years but I lived in Cider.
When I bought my new laptop a few months ago I consciously and purposefully refused to install VSCode, just improved my Emacs setup for all writing and programming - and I have been happier for it.
Vim/Emacs/Sublime (And now things like VSC/Helix) are more than sufficient for coding without an IDE. Autocomplete scripts, the terminal, build scripts, etc work great. Now with LSP you can turn any editor into an IDE pretty trivially.
[0] Projectile, a project mode https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile
[1] Cider, a clojure mode https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider
[2] Prelude https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude
When I bought my new laptop a few months ago I consciously and purposefully refused to install VSCode, just improved my Emacs setup for all writing and programming - and I have been happier for it.