So I feel like I've been stuck trying to grok boot for a while now.

It feels clunky to create new projects. Where lein as lein new the equivalent boot statement involves putting the boot-new dependency on the commandline which i can never really remember. I also don't really grok the immutable file tree thing that happens. Like I really want to come up with a workflow using asciidoctorj and some custom plugins to produce slideshow presentations. I can't really understand how to structure my project to do that...

I think what I want to do is create a task that reads in asciidoc code and applies my custom syntax rules. Then I'd use that task with some other boot task that creates html slideshows?

@cdimara have you tried doing this task with lein?

I have not. Its something like this possible iwth lein?

I wasn't sure if the customization would be there. Particularly because I want to do something for which the end product isn't really a clojure app.

hm, I don't know if it's possible with lein

Yeah, I mean I was hoping to use boot's kind of generic build tool flexibility to help me create documents and slideshows, using java libraries and tools.

ah, I see

But they start talking about pods... boot pods. I have no idea what that means.

Have you tried asking in the #boot channel?

Yeah... I'll go back there.

I've asked some stuff before.

Its tough to get a response sometimes.

I understand

But they've been pretty helpful. That Sean Cornfield guy is pretty great.

yeah, definitely

Anyways thats my two cents on the lein vs boot debate.

Deps is pretty rad.

I still can't set up a closurescript project to save my life though.

I think cljs is best started off with a template so you can get going and then pick it apart and see how things fit together

cljs has to deal with the jungle of javascript and npm

ah. Thats a good idea.

@cdimara I believe boot is aimed at creating a pipeline of functionally. You can add a piece of the pipe along with importing others. This type of composing is hard in lein, which is simply configuration. Is that helpful? I'm not an expert on either.