[ertucetin]

I’ve built many different kinds of software (backend, frontend, 3D games, cli tools, code editor, and more) with Clojure and have been using it for over a decade now.

I can confidently say that, among the list I mentioned, it’s the best for data manipulation/transformation. Thanks to the author for presenting it clearly and showing how the libraries and code look across different languages, all of which do a great job.

But Clojure has its own special place (maybe in my heart as well :). I think Clojure should be used more in the data science space. Thanks to the JVM, it can be very performant (I’m looking at you, Python).

[hatmatrix]

There was XLISP-STAT before R, but the scientists have spoken. They don't like the parentheses.

[iLemming]

If you compare every single language Clojure can emit - Clojure&Java, Clojurescript&Javascript, babashka&Bash, Clojure-Dart&Dart, Jank&C++, Fennel&Lua (even though technically Fennel is only Clojure-like) - the number of delimiters (and often even number of parens) would be universally higher than in the Clojure code. I guarantee it. Clojure has a lower delimiter-to-structure ratio. Java has parens that exist purely for syntactic obligations - `(if (`, `for (`, etc. It's not that Clojure has fewer parens absolutely, yet it has no wasted ones - that is 100% true.