This might not be totally true. In this post I use a few different asynchronous approaches to running Python that do something like what you want, perhaps especially the last bit of the post.
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/11/20/Asynchronously-running-python-blocks-in-org-mode/ Maybe you could adapt it for clojure. Frederick Giasson writes: > Hi Eric, > >>> Note: I am not sure if this is something related to Org-mode, or >>> ob-clojure or Cider. >> None of these directly. It's Emacs, basically: it has very minimal >> support for threading so the whole process (Emacs) is waiting for the >> sub-process (Clojure) to finish before doing anything else. > > > Ok good, thanks for confirming! > > Take care, > > Fred -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu