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I'd be interested in clojure if I didn't have to use third party tools to set it up on windows, or if the process was documented so I don't have to.

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I felt the same way when I first wanted to try the language (have to use Windows for work). I went to clojure.org only to find the message:

  Installation on Windows: Not yet available - see Leiningen or Boot instead.

That was a disappointment to me, seeing as the language has been around for more than 10 years now. Also, when I went to try the Leiningen route I found that the installer wouldn't work on Windows 10:

https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/issues/2412

So I decided to try another language instead... But eventually I returned to Clojure and managed to get it up and running by using the fix that's suggested in the GitHub issue above. I'm really enjoying the language, but I fully agree that it can be frustrating to install on Windows.

The leiningen setup has been fairly stable, if still a bit obnoxious these days. It's a bit more difficult to get the supporting tools up than the language, in my opinion.

That's disappointing. I've been using clojure with windows 10 and didn't run into this problem, but I think I used https://scoop.sh/ to install it. I'm not really interested in the clj tool and deps.edn until it's gone through a few releases.

We've done 13 releases of clj so far. It's pretty stable now.

Stay tuned! Work in progress.

If you use the linux subsystem you can simply use the clj tool. Not a perfect solution, but it's workable.

And if you are on win7? :)

I have a powershell port, just haven't quite polished it enough to release it yet. But it's coming!

I will definitely be interested in that when released :) Less friction will mean more adoption...

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