Data Manipulation in Clojure Compared to R and Python

ertucetin 38 minutes ago|

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).

__mharrison__ 21 minutes ago||

Good pandas and polars code should also be written in an immutable way...

nxpnsv 15 minutes ago||

Agree. While it is common to see code like these pandas examples, it is very possible to write these manipulations so that they return a new frame or view without changing the inputs.

epgui 16 minutes ago||

Good python code can exist, but python makes it so easy to write bad code that good python rarely exists.

soumyaskartha 41 minutes ago|

Clojure never got the data science crowd even though the language is genuinely good for it. Always felt like a distribution problem more than a technical one.

asa400 28 minutes ago|

Unfortunately, having to mess around with a JVM is a tough sell for a lot of data analysis folks. I'm not saying it's rational or right, but a lot of people hear "JVM" and they go "no thank you". Personally I think it's a non-issue, but you have to meet people where they are.