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The appeal is the libraries, like numpy, scipy,matplotlib tensorflow, qiskit the quality and the ease to use them. Basically python became what TCL dreamt of be

The appeal is the libraries, like numpy, scipy,matplotlib tensorflow, qiskit the quality and the ease to use them. Basically python became what TCL dreamt of becoming (ok, don't kill me).

cutler 6y ago
Clojure now has libpython: https://github.com/clj-python/libpython-clj https://github.com/clj-python/libpython-clj.
- andi999 6y ago
  Better late than never. How is ease of use? Does it work well?
  - cutler 6y ago
    Works well. Best of both worlds.
- Tcepsa 6y ago
  Oooo, neat! Thanks for pointing this out, I'll have to look into it. Many of my struggles have also revolved around the ecosystem (pulling in and/or keeping up to date with modules that other teams have written, etc.) so I'm especially interested to see how this deals with that.
  - cutler 6y ago
    There's also Hy (https://github.com/hylang/hy https://github.com/hylang/hy) if you just want Python with Clojure-ish syntax. At the very least it frees you from indentation and single-expression lambda restrictions.
    - andi999 6y ago
      What is the Syntax for named optional parameters