@Anstiv, not sure which website I linked to. Do you remember what it was about? Was it related to Emacs or Clojure?
I'm going slightly against the gain of "correct opinions" but Spacemacs has served me loyally and I'm glad I started off with it. Generally, Emacs has excellent Clojure tooling, but VS Code with Calva isn't bad, either. Pick whichever tool you like and work well with. I happened to fall into Spacemacs by way of necessity.
I'd also recommend not wasting time on configuring Emacs from scratch, from now. You want to work, not tune a machine. (maybe you do, then go ahead). Which is why I like the preconfigured distributions.
Org and magit are great. I'm not one of the people who manage their lives in org mode, but magit has been a godsend. It makes the hard things easy.