# Amazing Ideas that blew your mind

**URL:** https://clojureverse.org/t/amazing-ideas-that-blew-your-mind/7369
**Category:** Watercooler
**Created:** [March 21, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/amazing-ideas-that-blew-your-mind/7369 "2021-03-21T13:35:07Z")
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### Author: ![PEZ](https://clojureverse.org/user_avatar/clojureverse.org/pez/32/1187_2.png) [@PEZ](https://clojureverse.org/u/PEZ)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 7:13am UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/amazing-ideas-that-blew-your-mind/7369/23 "2021-03-26T07:13:31Z")

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> [@seancorfield](#):
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> their current approach relies on things that are deprecated and will not be supported in future: specifically `:paths`/`:extra-paths` that reach outside the project tree.

That is being fixed as we speak.

> [@seancorfield](#):
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> I guess we just didn’t think we’d discovered anything new and didn’t feel like writing an “architecture” website/project about how we have been working for years.

I’m so happy the Polylith team did realize how this could benefit so many more. Joakim Tengstrand took three months pause of earning money to do the do the rewrite from Leiningen to tools/deps. Devotion.

> [@seancorfield](#):
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> Polylith feels to me like exactly what we’ve been doing at work for ages, except with a lot more formalism, proscribed naming, and boilerplate.

I think it is much of what you have been doing. Didn’t get the impression of much boilerplate, though. And in addition to formalism and conventions there are also the command line tools around it. Don’t know how much of that is out there in projects using similar ideas.

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