> A lot of dependencies tend to stop being maintained after a while. [...] The newer shinier ones lack in features while the more featureful ones are from 3 yea

> A lot of dependencies tend to stop being maintained after a while. [...] The newer shinier ones lack in features while the more featureful ones are from 3 years ago and have not seen a single update since. A lot of libraries are not updated because they do not need any updates. This is surprising to people coming from other languages, but is fairly common in the Clojure world. I use many libraries which haven't been touched in 3-5 years and it is fine: they don't need updates. > Auth systems etc. are half-baked with 10 different implementations on GitHub Here I would agree — authentication is a problematic area. I use buddy, which I had to integrate into my ring+sente app manually with quite a bit of pain. Friend has the wrong abstractions, IMHO, and does not get the job done.