It’s been a few years since I was deep into clj/cljs, and I am wondering if there are a lot of people who still use https://leiningen.org/ ?
fwiw I did find a number of recently updated repos on github using it Repository search results · GitHub
Yup - we use it every day to automate Clojure projects without setting our hair on fire.
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I think by surveys, the numbers are close to 50%, with deps gaining ground over the years.
I still reach for lein for new projects, and only really use deps if there’s a dependency I need to hack on that uses it.
According to Q21 of Clojure - State of Clojure 2023 Results, about 60% of users still use Leiningen for at least some projects, but the Clojure CLI usage overtook it for the first time with about 70% using deps.edn for at least some projects.
Shadow-cljs seems to have become pretty much the de facto standard for working with ClojureScript these days.
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We use it heavily.
Regarding Shadow, we were late to the party (we were reluctant initially), but it is paying off now.
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I think for a lot of projects that are already using Lein, I imagine there’s not really a pressing reason to switch to deps as Lein (at least in my experience) works quite well.
Not to mention as well that a lot of books out there are teaching Lein, and not deps (probably because a lot of them were written before deps got popular).
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Reminds me, I should have posted this when I replied: Clojure Guides: Getting Started (clojure-doc.org) (talks about Leiningen vs Clojure CLI).
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For me the Clojure Guide explain perfectly:
"Leiningen is “easy”. The CLI is “simple”.
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