I wouldn't say your Python example is comparable to the Clojure code. I'd describe it as "writing java in .py files", actually. No one is forcing you to write c

I wouldn't say your Python example is comparable to the Clojure code. I'd describe it as "writing java in .py files", actually. No one is forcing you to write classes for everything in Python, having one class per file, and insisting to deserialize everything into classes. Simple functions and native data structures work just as well as in Clojure, and you'd end up with similar code as a result.