I haven't touched it in awhile because honestly whether your coworkers do APL or your coworkers do Clojure they will hate you if you use this. Ye be warned.
God forbid there's interest in it we could add more support... but there are like 75 significant systems engineering and architecture questions you should be prepared to either answer or blithely ignore before using this Frankenstein's monster.
I tried making Dyalog bindings but wasn't smart enough to figure it out at the time based on the info available and I doubt much has changed regarding either my intelligence or information availability there. But it would be awesome!
It isn’t a suitable language for data science and lacks the ecosystem of Python.
For example, people will write Eden files to parse data, which involves creating a really complex DSL for every file for import.
They will try to use Datomic as a database, which requires using datalog and does not scale.
The worst part is the clojure users are convinced it is somehow better, and ignore the business use case.
I feel bad for companies because it clearly isn’t a good fit and those devs will hire all their friends and do nothing for five years.
This happened at an organization doing cancer research, so the selfish cultists ruined a chance at understanding immunotherapy by focusing on writing clojure rather than doing science.
Recursion pharmaceuticals also had this problem, and had to rip out all of the clojure from their system.
Well, if you are among that sort of masochist and you like Clojure and APL, you could play with libapl-clj: https://github.com/jjtolton/libapl-clj
I haven't touched it in awhile because honestly whether your coworkers do APL or your coworkers do Clojure they will hate you if you use this. Ye be warned.
God forbid there's interest in it we could add more support... but there are like 75 significant systems engineering and architecture questions you should be prepared to either answer or blithely ignore before using this Frankenstein's monster.