Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)

Re:Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016) by tombert on Sunday March 24, 2019 @08:17PM (#19479506)

I will admit that there aren't as many direct Clojure libraries, but many of the core things out there; core.matrix works pretty well for elaborate matrix processing, there are several decent web frameworks, as well as parsing libraries.

There's a metric ton of libraries for Java and Scala out there, and as a consequence of Clojure's ability to use Java stuff, you have access to all of it. I admit I've not done a ton of machine-learning stuff, but I've used Spark ML, which works well.

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Re:Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016) by sooheon on Sunday March 24, 2019 @08:49PM (#19479598)

The data science story in Clojure is good and improving fast. Neanderthal is the fastest matrix library available on the JVM. Bayadera is ridiculously fast probabilistic programming (not to mention Anglican, which has a slightly easier API in exchange for perf). There's a lot of activity around Clojure bindings for MXNet, if you want deep learning. It's not mainstream Python, but it's far from limited by community or libraries.

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