Certainly the pace of growth has slowed, but the language is still growing at a lessor pace. I would say Leiningen/Maven is a major strength of the clojure ecos

Certainly the pace of growth has slowed, but the language is still growing at a lessor pace. I would say Leiningen/Maven is a major strength of the clojure ecosystem. However, if you do not like Leiningen, now there is now an "out of the box" solution to manage dependencies and construct the classpath. https://clojure.org/guides/deps_and_cli https://clojure.org/guides/deps_and_cli In addition, you do not need to use nrepl. Clojure has a socket repl and a socket prepl as of Clojure 1.10