alt Hacker NewsClojure 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.
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levocardia • today at 7:35 PM
In this very post you can see why: the dplyr code is just so much more readable. Like a lot of python, dplyr reads almost like pseudocode: take this dataset, select the columns that start with "bill", then filter so that bill_length is less than 30. So simple and so little fluff!
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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.