You should try Luminus, which concentrates all the basic libraries for web development.
Not as rich as Play! or Django but sufficient for doing a lot of things. It's also a great way to learn Clojure smoothly, it's far more accessible than Pedestal for a beginner.
Pedestal client has been retired. Pedestal server is a high performance server framework that most people probebly want have to use. Pedestal gives you much more power offer use of threads and how you do controll flows between middlewares and such.
I actually might give Luminus a go if I give up on scala sometime. Thanks. I did have some fun with clojure, it's much easier to get started with.
I know i'm kind of spoiled with features because I do a lot of projects which involve django. I do not expect a framework to be as rich as Django. But i prefer having some things integrated. Some might prefer choosing every component in a framework (ORM, url routing system, form validation etc), but when you work in a team or with freelancers, it comes in handy if theres just a way of doing things.
