Calvas formatter just formats with its defaults. I think most people just run with them. Or am I misunderstanding the issue here?

Yeah, I mean for example Prettier splits lines the way it wants to, and doesn't leave you a choice, whereas using the Calva formatter, I can insert line breaks wherever I want and they are respected. As a noob, this means I am formatting my code badly because I don't really know where to put the line breaks

So long as the closing brackets at the end of an expression are all on the same line, I wouldn't worry about anything else. Make it readable for yourself and focus on understand the language and idioms If you work with a Clojure team, they will share there on particularly biases on formatting (and other idioms) If you wish for examples, look at other people's code or take a look at the Clojure style guide. https://guide.clojure.style/ Or use cljfmt with all the options on if you don't want a choice in how your code is formatted (I found cljfmt makes code harder to read and work with untill I switch of most of the options)

I see. cljfmt follows community guidelines, and those do not have an opinion on where to break lines. You can run zprint on your files though. It can be configured to break lines and a lot of things. Don't think it has an opinion though, like cljfmt has. But they will be largely compatible around line breaks, since cljfmt never adds any or joins a line with code on it.

(Except for folding the paren trail, as @U05254DQM mentions.)

To investigate what @U0NCTKEV8 and @U7RJTCH6J said: can you show us the code for: 1. namespace declaration of your entry file 2. declaration of your -main function in that file 3. how you build the jar (shell/build command)

@U7RJTCH6J @U0NCTKEV8 @U01EFUL1A8M thnx for the replies, your questions alone helped me to think 🙏 Regarding building jar - I build with a script:

clojure -A:aot

if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]
then
    echo "Could not compile project."
    exit 1
fi

echo "Project compiled. Creating an uberjar for the project"

clojure -A:uberjar

if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]
then
    echo "Could not create uberjar for the project."
    exit 1
fi

(defn -main [& _args]
  (try
    (mount/start)
    (catch Exception e
      (log/error "Exception during mounting resources! \n" e))))