(this is a follow-up post to this thread https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/C053AK3F9/p1677938645591669) The lein vs Clojure CLI dilemma comes up quite often in various forms. After a short internet search today, surprisingly I couldn't find any guides to help beginners choose one over the other. In older discussions about the same issue here I got the impression that people are quite passionate about the tool of their choice, so if you recommend tools.deps, you might get some resistance from users of lein and vice versa. Even if there's no debate, there's not a clear answer. How should we approach this as a community? Nowadays I use the official CLI tools exclusively, so I'm not familiar with lein but I'd love it if we could come up with a better story. 🙂 Happy to hear your thoughts!