For a long time, Leiningen was the Clojure project automation tool almost everyone used. Clojure itself did not come with a tool for managing dependencies – you had to use Leiningen, Maven, or Boot, or download the dependencies yourself and construct the classpath by hand. This changed when Clojure 1.9 was released in 2017. It included the new clojure command-line tool that supported the deps.edn file for declaring dependencies. Many people started to use the new tool instead of Leiningen. ...
