7 engineers on Hacker News describe using Boot first-hand: 1 endorse it, 3 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“we started to run into limitations with Boot (both the file system abstraction and the "pod" isolation caused problems)”
regret · production · 3 yr · seancorfield · 2023-04-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated to Clojure CLI / deps.edn in 2018 because we were running into limitations with Boot as our repository grew and our needs for dev/test/build became more complex.”
regret · production · 3 yr · seancorfield · 2022-09-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Boot was great from the "writing new tasks" point of view but the fileset abstraction and the pod pooling were both pain points for us.”
mixed · production · seancorfield · 2021-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“if we hadn't started to run into bugs/issues with Boot at scale we'd probably still be using it”
regret · production · seancorfield · 2021-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We were able to address many problems including this one when we switched to boot-clj”
endorse · production · iLemming · 2017-02-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“then we switched completely to Boot in 2015, and then we switched completely to deps.edn in 2018.”
neutral · production · 3 yr · seancorfield · 2023-02-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Leiningen (and boot) isolate you from all of that.”
neutral · personal · dkersten · 2017-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?