The tooling is actually great, but kind of hard to discover if you're a beginner. The clojure.org website isn't very beginner-friendly, unfortunately.

Types... I find most people missing static type checking are really reliant on a certain way of programming which isn't applicable to Clojure, e.g. write code, look for red squiggly lines, fix type signatures, compile, wait, fix the bugs the compiler tells you about.

Clojure is much more exploratory in the way that you are always connected to a live system (like other Lisps) plus most of your functions are small and pure, making their logic self-contained and simple to deal with in isolation.