Clojure from the ground up: sequences

Thank you for posting this.

I am looking into Lisp based languages these days, and as such I find it always good to get more basic information on language semantics.

There are a couple of things however that make a transition to Clojure very hard, and I think it would do some good if more information about these obstacles could be written down:

1) A lot of work needs to be invested to get a IDE going. I wasted a lot of time with emacs and Sublime Text 2/SublimeREPL before settling for Light Table. Note: I find the first two choices to be excellent editors, it is just that it is hard to get them going the way one wants to.

2) The JVM is said to be one of Clojures greatest assets. For me - I started programming with Python - reading java lingo error tracebacks and browsing the source code of JVM packages is very unpleasent experience.

An introduction on how to tackle the JVM library 'problem' in an efficient way a la Python would be great.

3) Compilation to JAR, running a service on GAE/Amazon without loosing much time on JVM startup and other practical things might be a nice to have in your guide.

4) Since multithreading is one of the key characteristics that sets Clojure apart from other lisp/scheme based languages e.g. the easy but great Chicken Scheme, it would be great to have a good look on parallel computing in the tutorial.

Cheers!