[martinced]

I managed to do my entire Java career by dodging Maven but I'm now learning Clojure and I really like the language but, sadly, I'm not fluent enough in Clojure to do everything "by hand" so I'm using Leiningen...

And Leiningen uses Maven under the hood :-/

[weavejester]

Leiningen doesn't use Maven under the hood. It understands the Maven repository format, and imports a few classes from Maven for searching Maven repos, but that's pretty much it.