I tested it out with some fairly dependency-heavy node JS projects and it worked great (albeit with a human-noticeable perf difference vs node). R projects suff

I tested it out with some fairly dependency-heavy node JS projects and it worked great (albeit with a human-noticeable perf difference vs node). R projects suffer the usual R-on-JVM issues, see eg https://github.com/oracle/fastr#status-and-limitations https://github.com/oracle/fastr#status-and-limitations . I could, however, use ggplot2 and dplyr, which I don't recall working the last time I tried R-on-JVM. So that's awesome. Being able to reasonably use R stuff from clojure (and other languages better for general purpose programming) is my data science dream. Though I can't say I'm sad with my current unix-y solutions.