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The ML ecosystem is in python, by choosing a different language you give up access to a ton of great projects. Hiring would be difficult as well

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Hiring someone that doesn’t know Java would be.. quite a feat actually!

Clojure though, well, engineers should always be ready to learn

You'll have a hard time hiring ML talent by forcing them to use java/closure instead of the tools they are familiar with and everyone else uses.

I agree. Python also satisfies the principle of lease power. Adapting Atwood's Law[1], for ML projects - "Any ML project that can be written in Python, will eventually be written in Python."

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/

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