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I am glad to hear Clojure is slowly getting its act together WRT numerics. I reluctantly dropped the language several years ago because the ecosystem for any kind of math/ML was just nonexistent, unless you consider a "call the terribly verbose Java libraries for everything" approach viable.

Especially nice in this Neanderthal lib is the GPU stuff.

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Yeah, the foundation is there (hold arbitrary fractions, 64-bit decimals... other good things). What's the go-to tool for Mathematics? MatLab?

Eh, the simplified version is:

- Engineers (like electrical etc) use Matlab

- Statisticians use R

- Rich people sometimes use Mathematica

- People with some CS background use Python/numpy/sklearn

For "purer" math, like symbolic differentiation and such, I don't really know any of those people, but I think Mathematica has a lot in that area. The others have stuff, but less developed. But pretty much every major language has linear algebra at this point.

Sadists use sas

Who, other than students forced to do so, uses Minitab?

I would sort of expect Julia to be on the list for "good math language for people not quite happy with clojure". But it's much younger than the others listed, obviously.

You can run Mathematica functions within Clojure. https://github.com/gasc/Clojuratica

Does that still work?

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