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?
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?
Very much still alive - we find it simpler than deps.edn and related tools for many tasks. Learn both.
In the Clojure sense, Leiningen is definitely easier (but it is not simpler tooling).
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
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.ednis simple because it’s designed specifically for composition. It’s a really important distinction.(: