boot-clj/boot

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Boot is a build tooling framework for Clojure that treats builds as programs written in Clojure rather than declarative configuration. It provides a runtime environment with composable task pipelines, classpath isolation via pods, a managed immutable filesystem tree, and ad-hoc Clojure script evaluation.

Use cases

• build clojure projects with a programmable build tool
• write build scripts in clojure instead of a declarative dsl
• compose build pipelines from reusable tasks
• run clojure scripts without a project context
• manage complex builds with asset pipelines and multiple artifacts
• isolate classloaders and run separate clojure runtimes in one jvm

When to choose

• you want a turing-complete build specification written in Clojure
• your build process is complex with many integrations and multiple artifacts
• you prefer composing middleware-style tasks over editing a global config map
• you want to evaluate ad-hoc Clojure scripts with dynamically added Maven dependencies

When to avoid

• you are starting a new Clojure project and want the community-standard tools.deps CLI
• you prefer declarative build configuration like Leiningen's project.clj
• you need a build tool with active recent development and a large current ecosystem
• you are not working on the JVM or with Clojure

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

build-tool cli developer-tools developer-tools programming-languages jvm windows cli clojure build-pipelines jvm repl-driven task-composition automation linux macos

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