Leiningen Reviews & Product Details

Leiningen provides a build management tool around common project tasks. It is easy to install via a simple shell script and has reasonable options to run, build, or launch a repl. The ability to configure environments and dependencies is also very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So far, I haven't experienced any major downsides. It would be nice to specify a JDK version to lock to in order to prevent issues like the recent java perf regression related to static assets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

easy package and dependency management. Repl and everything I need to use to work wth Clojure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slow startup. Since it has to connect to a jvm. So besides starting up it alo has to load its plugins. Its not the slowest but its noticeable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use and integration with plugins are some of my favorite parts of leiningen. I also found the documentation to be very good. Whether writing a simple clojure library, commandline tool, or web service, leiningen's support for templating those projects and building them was superb. Highly recommend it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a bit clojure-centric. While I wish all dev projects that I supported were done in clojure, many of them use different languages. I wish I could use leiningen for everything because it's much more user friendly than maven/ant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.