Oh, I didn't take the post that way; don't worry. But reading about the bits where you have to keep two separate lein instances running at once just made me cr

Oh, I didn't take the post that way; don't worry. But reading about the bits where you have to keep two separate lein instances running at once just made me cringe. It's not that hard to write lein plugins that work together composably, but it seems to me that in the Clojurescript realm, not much effort has been made in this direction. In addition, the need to clean (other than when changing branches) is almost always caused by buggy plugins; normal lein operation should never require it. The idea of having a watcher task strikes me as pretty tacky; it's so much smoother to simply have recompilation triggered by an after-save-hook in your editor. But I've never used ClojureScript, so there may be other reasons this isn't done.