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.
