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Is Leiningen dead? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by BetGlass7087@alien.top to c/lisp
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No commits on GitHub since 2022, the slack channel is dead silent, and it seems everyone here recommends deps.edn. Is Leiningen worth using in 2023 or should I jump ship?

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[–] hrrld@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very much still alive - we find it simpler than deps.edn and related tools for many tasks. Learn both.

[–] seancorfield@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the Clojure sense, Leiningen is definitely easier (but it is not simpler tooling).

[–] flh13@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We should stop repeating this line - it is simpler but not easier... or similar variant. It is becoming extremely cringe.

Whenever there's some criticism we paste this line

[–] seancorfield@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It's core to Clojure's design principles tho'. If you think it's "cringe" then maybe Clojure isn't for you? Seriously, the mantra of Clojure's design is small, simple pieces, composed together. Easy = familiar. Leiningen is "easy" because it's like build tools in other languages. Clojure CLI / deps.edn is simple because it's designed specifically for composition. It's a really important distinction.