> The Clojure/JVM statistics/scientific computing/now tensor math packages just never got as good as Python, and in Smalltalk they were a non-starter. There ar

> The Clojure/JVM statistics/scientific computing/now tensor math packages just never got as good as Python, and in Smalltalk they were a non-starter. There are undergoing efforts to improve numerics performance on Smalltalk. Pharo, for example, uses JIT, and already beats pure Python. But numerics in Python is mostly outsourced to fast modules written in C/Fortran. So people are in process of making Pharo's counterpart to NumPy/SciPy (PolyMath) leverage BLAS/LAPACK integration as well. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5jJBUMLxq8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5jJBUMLxq8 https://hal.science/hal-03768601v1/file/main.pdf https://hal.science/hal-03768601v1/file/main.pdf