Yes Gradle works, same for Ant and Maven as well. Some people use those as well, you can find some set of tasks for each that add a bit more Clojure-awareness

Yes Gradle works, same for Ant and Maven as well. Some people use those as well, you can find some set of tasks for each that add a bit more Clojure-awareness to them as well such as https://github.com/clojurephant/clojurephant https://github.com/clojurephant/clojurephant for Gradle. That said, tools.deps did add a feature which renders some projects who are built with tools.deps and use that feature no longer work with just Gradle/Ant/Maven/Lein/etc. tools.deps allows you to depend on git repos directly, so if a library is published in that style, it can only be consumed with tools.deps (which is the now official dependency manager)