regarding #3, My philosophy with emacs and friends is not to try to learn too much. I have to confess that with paredit, all I know to do is slurp and barf (wh

regarding #3, My philosophy with emacs and friends is not to try to learn too much. I have to confess that with paredit, all I know to do is slurp and barf (which sounds funny now that I've written it). I personally find the overhead of learning the jump around commands isn't worth the benefit to me. I just use the vim aspect of spacemacs for efficient navigation. Regarding #4, yeah. It is what it is... lein makes it all about twice as slow. 30 seconds sounds pretty crazy, but I don't do a lot with clojurescript. Most of my stuff will startup in about 5 or so seconds with lein, 3 without. even on a wimpy vps.