Editors as they apply to data science adoption is certainly relevant, particularly as relates to ease of adoption for beginners. It's easy for an experienced developer to dismiss the difference of ease in adopting something like RStudio vs R by itself; Those with experience already have workflows they're used to (vim/emacs + tmux / whatever), but getting to that point is not trivial. And there are certainly those who come to R and python looking to do data science who have little programming experience. I've seen a lot of this among biologists in particular.
The Gorilla REPL does certainly take us a good way there, for those interested in the notebook model. But the RStudio/MATLAB workbench model is also something worth considering. Some easy to install packages gluing together Incanter, core.matrix, Gorilla REPL, Quil, and perhaps tools/interfaces that don't exist yet, with excellent documentation and guidance, could make a huge difference in adoption. As for broader thoughts coming to mind: My experience has been that R is great for exploration, but is terrible for scaling into bigger systems from an architectural standpoint (but other's might disagree with me). It can also feel rather cumbersome when developing algorithms. Python feels much better along these lines, but also has its own warts as a language (concurrency for example). It's my opinion that the shortcomings of Clojure for data science are much more easily addressable than those of R or python, as they're less about the language itself than things missing from ecosystem which can be added. And I think the value of a language which scales from exploration to production naturally is not something to be undervalued. Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
