I've had good luck with lein prism to cut out any annoying lein startup time. 
Mixed in with cider when I want to run one test works nicely for me. 

https://github.com/aphyr/prism/

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> On Jan 8, 2015, at 7:32 AM, Malcolm Sparks <malc...@juxt.pro> wrote:
> 
> LISP systems work better when they are continually up-and-running. Take Emacs 
> for example. Clojure systems aren't much different. 
> 
> I prefer to think of lein more as a launch tool than a build tool.
> 
> I don't think anyone has mentioned it on this thread yet, but lots of people 
> are using Stuart Sierra's component workflow for precisely this reason - you 
> can make changes and see the effects very quickly simply by typing (reset) 
> into the REPL. See https://github.com/stuartsierra/component
> 
> For a working example of incremental compilation, see 
> http://modularity.org/templates/dashboard.html - it will recompile your 
> ClojureScript and Less css files incrementally, and can do so because it can 
> keep context between resets. It's possible to add 'test' components which 
> will run your tests after every reset. I don't have any templates 
> demonstrating that yet, but I have seen people do it.
> 
> 
>> On Thursday, 8 January 2015 14:20:56 UTC, Andrea Crotti wrote:
>> Ah great that's what I wanted, I'll try later. 
>> Does it give some feedback on what it's compiling and what is going on? 
>> 
>> I would use just cider in theory but I had some errors with namespaces 
>> (probably my fault) and more importantly it seemed that it didn't 
>> always recompiled things that were changed (again probably my fault). 
>> 
>> So in short only changing dependencies should require a new "lein 
>> test" or "lein deps"? 
>> 
>> And this useful plugins do you normally put them in your 
>> ./lein/profiles.clj or in every project you have? 
>> 
>> thanks a lot 
>> 
>> 2015-01-08 11:41 GMT+00:00 Robin Heggelund Hansen <skinn...@gmail.com>: 
>> > The reason lein is initially slow, has to do with Clojures bootstrapping 
>> > process, which is slow. People tend to avoid starting clojure programs 
>> > repeatedly, and thus do alot of work from the repl, or using leiningen 
>> > plugins which keeps running and listens for changes. 
>> > 
>> > Take a look at lein-test-refresh for tdd: 
>> > 
>> > https://github.com/jakemcc/lein-test-refresh 
>> > 
>> > It detects when you change your code, incrementally compiles and re-runs 
>> > the 
>> > tests. It runs your tests everytime you save a file :) 
>> > 
>> > kl. 12:32:44 UTC+1 torsdag 8. januar 2015 skrev Andrea Crotti følgende: 
>> >> 
>> >> Hi guys, 
>> >> 
>> >> I'm starting to use Clojure a bit more seriously, I knew already Lisp a 
>> >> bit and Haskell, in plus I've been using Emacs for a long time so 
>> >> luckily it's not as hard, and it's a lot of fun. 
>> >> 
>> >> I'm using Emacs + Cider for development and it works wonderfully, 
>> >> however I have a few problems/questions trying to do TDD. 
>> >> 
>> >> 1. Isn't it possible to make Lein more verbose? 
>> >> 
>> >>    It's often quite slow and it would be nice to know what is going 
>> >>    on, I can stand the slowness but at least tell me something :D 
>> >> 
>> >> 2. When is exactly that I need to run again "lein test" (which is 
>> >>    painfully slow) and when just rerunning the tests from the same REPL 
>> >>    suffice? 
>> >> 
>> >>    I thought only when changing dependencies, but I had different 
>> >>    experiences so I'm not too sure about the rule. 
>> >> 
>> >>    And what command exactly is Cider triggering when I run the tests? 
>> >>    It would be nice to be able to see somewhere more information like: 
>> >>    - compiling file x 
>> >>    - running tests for y with command z 
>> >> 
>> >>  3. Does incremental compilation work well/make sense for Clojure? 
>> >>     I found something but the fact that it's not done straight away in 
>> >>     Leiningen makes me think it's maybe not much used? 
>> >> 
>> >> Thanks a lot, and congratulations to all the developers for the great 
>> >> language! 
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