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# Leiningen Reviews
**Vendor:** Leiningen  
**Category:** [Other Continuous Delivery Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-continuous-delivery)  
**Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 3
## About Leiningen
Leiningen is the easiest way to use Clojure. With a focus on project automation and declarative configuration, it gets out of your way and lets you focus on your code.




## Leiningen Reviews
  ### 1. Easiest way to bootstrap clojure projects

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2019

**What do you like best about Leiningen?**

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.

**What do you dislike about Leiningen?**

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.

**What problems is Leiningen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Leiningen manages our build and run processes for our clojure applications. Provides an easy-to-use, stable, portable tool.

  ### 2. Awesome quick tool for everything clojure development

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2016

**What do you like best about Leiningen?**

easy package and dependency management. Repl and everything I need to use to work wth Clojure.

**What do you dislike about Leiningen?**

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.

**What problems is Leiningen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Interop with java applications in a more flexible/powerful lisp-like language.

  ### 3. A great build tool for Clojure

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Peter B. | Hands-on Engineering Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2015

**What do you like best about Leiningen?**

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.

**What do you dislike about Leiningen?**

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.

**Recommendations to others considering Leiningen:**

Get involved with the support community, they're great.

**What problems is Leiningen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Creating/building small, single-purpose applications in clojure. Leiningen makes it easy to manage dependencies, setup and build projects. It also integrates with tools like immutant (to host clojure web apps).


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