Data Manipulation in Clojure Compared to R and Python

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).

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

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.