It's not my experience that Clojure tooling is fundamentally slow, Leiningen is just one option. For many projects I don't use anything more than Maven bash scr

It's not my experience that Clojure tooling is fundamentally slow, Leiningen is just one option. For many projects I don't use anything more than Maven bash scripts, inf-clojure, and clojure-mode - all overhead free. And projects like CursiveClojure drive home how powerful and responsive tooling for Clojure(Script) can be. Even so the point of the post is not to bash on Leiningen but to demonstrate how the overhead issues are not insurmountable - it just requires really knowing the tools (surprise) and which knobs to turn. In fact an implicit free idea for someone to explore is to automate all the optimizations for Leiningen that I covered.