Is there a sales pitch for switching to deps.edn from Lein in 2020?

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In my experience, deps.edn is worth to switch.

  1. more controllable at the classpath and having less weird transitive dependencies problems
  2. start up time is faster
  3. more flexible project setup, like the project, subproject structure
  4. don’t need to publish to clojars, when I fix some upstream open source libraries for my own project.
  5. with deps, scripting is much more bearable.

but we still have many problems have to handle.

  1. don’t have a good ‘uberjar’ tool ( aot + merging resources + manifest creation + resolving libraries) could be used with deps

  2. no easy publishing flow for clojars/standard maven deployment.

  3. no way to mix with native java source files.

  4. documentation is far from perfect.

  5. If you are an advance user, you will need extensive knowledge about how maven is working.

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