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by aynyc 2141 days ago
Why Clojure? I honestly never heard of anyone using Clojure as data tools.

I use Python and Scala. I use Python for mostly small tasks. When I hit large data, I normally use Spark on EMR (PySpark or Scala).
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jb1991 2140 days ago
> I honestly never heard of anyone using Clojure as data tools.

Clojure is one of the most actively-used data analysis languages actually. It is used by many industry for that purpose. Heck even the widely-used Metabase is written in Clojure.

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tcbasche 2140 days ago
I don’t believe that. What do you have to back that up? I would have thought Python or Scala - been in the data analysis game for a few years now and have never heard Clojure mentioned once except on Hackernews
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s_c_r 2141 days ago
Honestly? I’m interested in it and wanted an excuse to give it a try. No more compelling reason than that.
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aynyc 2141 days ago
I think that's the best reason for doing things. Find something interesting and give it a try.

Using Scala as a functional language has been a fun journey for me. I still code imperatively when solving problems, but when I get a chance to refactor them into functional programming, boy, my mind goes Boom!

I do hope I get to use Clojure at some point.

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