I can twist your entire argument around, but honestly, why even bother? You use Java and Kotlin as (good) examples, leaving the fact that these are heavily IDE-centric PLs. And if you haven't noticed, Kotlin actually is a marketing tool, created by an IDE tool-maker, to sell more IDE features. Try writing Java in Vim or Emacs - expect a world of pain. Whereas Clojure with its minimal syntax doesn't have that problem. In my team, we have engineers writing Clojure and Clojurescript in Emacs, Vim, VSCode and IntelliJ, and we don't do that for some hobby projects. I also, personally know people who use Sublime and Atom.