I can't speak to these problem as I haven't used Windows in years myself. I imagine majority of the community uses Linux and MacOS hence why Windows has been an

I can't speak to these problem as I haven't used Windows in years myself. I imagine majority of the community uses Linux and MacOS hence why Windows has been an afterthought. This isn't unique to Clojure by any means either, a lot of dev tools are difficult or impossible to use on Windows from what I've seen. Clojure now has dependency management built in with deps.tools that ships with it. It's simpler and less opinionated than lein. So, perhaps that will address the problem with getting started on Windows.