9 engineers on Hacker News describe using Leiningen first-hand: 2 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Leiningen just wasn't "programmable" enough for us, but after a few years we started to run into limitations with Boot”
regret · production · seancorfield · 2023-04-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Leiningen was too rigid and too much ceremony to write new tasks for.”
regret · production · seancorfield · 2021-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“If you find Leiningen to be restrictive and not a good fit for your project -- as we did, years ago”
regret · production · seancorfield · 2021-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Leiningen (and boot) isolate you from all of that.”
endorse · personal · dkersten · 2017-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Leiningen is a SWEET dependency management tool, and the built-on-Java approach leaves you with a jar that you scp and you're done.”
endorse · production · unit91 · 2017-03-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At work, we started with lein (back in 2011 for our production code), then we switched completely to Boot in 2015”
neutral · production · 4 yr · seancorfield · 2023-02-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We started with Leiningen (because it was the only game in town).”
neutral · production · seancorfield · 2022-09-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Back then, you did lein new compojure app then you had to figure out what to change in your handler file”
neutral · personal · dizzystar · 2017-02-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Lein and GO deployment”
neutral · production · frankvilhelmsen · 2014-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?