You and I are definitely both correct about it being a dependency: it caused me some installation headaches. I may have misunderstood the docs about how deep of a dependency it is; I haven't read the source.
Returning to the OP's point, given that it is a dependency, it's still possible there is some resulting startup overhead, but I couldn't say for sure without profiling it.
My biggest headache with it was just figuring out how to tell it to use a local jar. It really wanted to fetch it from clojars or maven central but sometimes you just need to use a jar that's sitting on your hard disk. IIRC there's no standard way to do this and I had to create a local maven repo for lein to pull it from.
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You and I are definitely both correct about it being a dependency: it caused me some installation headaches. I may have misunderstood the docs about how deep of a dependency it is; I haven't read the source.
Returning to the OP's point, given that it is a dependency, it's still possible there is some resulting startup overhead, but I couldn't say for sure without profiling it.
My biggest headache with it was just figuring out how to tell it to use a local jar. It really wanted to fetch it from clojars or maven central but sometimes you just need to use a jar that's sitting on your hard disk. IIRC there's no standard way to do this and I had to create a local maven repo for lein to pull it from.