What does the 'swank-clojure' do exactly, and do we have 'swank-SOMETHING_ELSE'?

Question

My superficial understanding is that \'swank-clojure\' makes \'M-x slime-connect\' possible. I mean, it gives a connection to a clojure server something like \'lein swank\'. Is

Answer 1

My understanding is that slime is the emacs part(the client), swank is the common lisp part(the server), swank-clojure is the clojure implementation of the swank server, not the original.