In my experience Leiningen is so much slower for typical, casual use case than rebar and mix that it was a serious inconvenience. I didn't try to solve it by ha

In my experience Leiningen is so much slower for typical, casual use case than rebar and mix that it was a serious inconvenience. I didn't try to solve it by having something like a deamon always running in a background or something like this though, it's possible that this is already addressed. > requires using a very Lisp-specific development environment I'm an Emacs user, so it was very natural for me, but I think it can be a problem for others. On the other hand I hear that there are excellent plugins for widely-used IDEs for Clojure. Actually, as Clojure is a Lisp, the only thing you really need is an editor which handles sexps well. Emacs Paredit is really great for this: http://emacsrocks.com/e14.html http://emacsrocks.com/e14.html but as long as you get similar functionality you can use anything you want.