Just picked up Clojure for this month. Got stuck on the Hello-World exercise, "lein test" didn't work at the command line. Read the "Installing Clojure locally" and did the homebrew bit. "lein test" still didn't work. Figured out I needed "brew install leaningen". Should the "Installing Clojure locally" docs be updated to include Leiningen? The "Testing on the Clojure track" doesn't mention the dependency, either.
#Clojure Getting Started
proper void
clever sluice
We made the docs go according to the Clojure CLI because it ships with Clojure and that way no other tool is needed. For testing, there's a :test alias that is used like this:
clj -X:test
We do include a Leiningen configuration for those already using it, but decided to keep the installation instructions simpler.
Now that I'm looking at the docs I'm seeing that some other things are out of date, particularly the Windows instructions, since Clojure now has an official MSI installer.
So as long as I'm making changes, I might reconsider and include Leiningen as well, because it continues to be used by many
proper void
Thx, @clever sluice . I mentioned it because the Hello World exercise specifically says to use 'lein test' under Running Tests on the web page. There's no mention of 'clj -X:test'. Being new to Clojure it was unneeded friction in getting started. https://exercism.org/tracks/clojure/exercises/hello-world
clever sluice
oh you know what, I wasn't even aware of that page, lol
proper void
no worries! I suppose we could also change the exercise instructions to call out 'clj -X:test' instead of lein.