Leiningen, AFAIK, uses Maven under the hood. And I don't really think that people don't appreciate Maven enough, most people consider it to be a great tool. Tha

Leiningen, AFAIK, uses Maven under the hood. And I don't really think that people don't appreciate Maven enough, most people consider it to be a great tool. That being said, I've used both Maven (at my job) and Leiningen (for my personal projects) and working with Leiningen is so much easier than working with Maven! One could almost say that the build tools reflect the characteristics of the languages for which they are used. Maven is used to build Java projects so there's a lot of ceremony involved. Leiningen, on the other hand is quite simple and easy to understand from the start.