I’ve been using '(require (quote cider-nrepl.main)) (cider-nrepl.main/init ["cider.nrepl/cider-middleware"])' -r with the new clj cli tool. The start up is very fast, though I’m noticing it takes a lot longer for vim-fireplace to do an initial :%Eval. To be expected?

Yeah, cider-nrepl is now lazy, so it doesn't load itself until required, and only what is required.

Ah! Thanks!! @dominicm