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I mean, I like R, I think R Studio is an incredible IDE, but I would never build anything meaningful in R code. It's messy, slow, and has an antiquated communit

I mean, I like R, I think R Studio is an incredible IDE, but I would never build anything meaningful in R code. It's messy, slow, and has an antiquated community where people share library documentation in PDF's. Julia seems promising, I haven't used it on a real project yet though, but I really like how easy it is to do data visualizations in the browser with Clojurescript and don't see Julia really having an answer for that.

sooheon 11y ago
What do you use for the browser visualizations? Gorilla repl?
- BorisVSchmid 11y ago
  As a scientist, I use a mix of Incanter, Quil, and gg4clj bridge to R's ggplot2 for visualization in clojure (none of these outputs to a browser though). R's ggplot2 beats Incanter (or anything other charting library) by a large margin in its excellent mix of conciseness and power, but I find Quil pretty nice for animations (superimposing data on geographical maps, for example). I keep an eye out for new charting libraries coming out for clojure. Last two I spotted were vizard from yieldbot (https://github.com/yieldbot/vizard https://github.com/yieldbot/vizard), and what seems to have only been a small project, xvsy (https://github.com/dvdt/xvsy https://github.com/dvdt/xvsy)
  - thom 11y ago
    Hadn't seen those libraries before, thanks for the links. I have to say, Quil is the least Clojurey library I have ever used, and I find it very, very primitive. There's definitely a huge gap for a project built with idiomatic Clojure bindings that can handle both nice graphical stuff but also stodgy charts, with basic stuff like annotation layouts etc. I think something that could work really well if anybody finds the time is a port of G: http://geosoft.no/graphics/ http://geosoft.no/graphics/
    - BorisVSchmid 11y ago
      Late reply, but ran into another plotting library, also from dvdt. https://github.com/dvdt/gyptis https://github.com/dvdt/gyptis It is a nice wrapper around vega. Using that now.
Lofkin 11y ago
Julia will when it can compile to web assembly

sooheon 11y ago

What do you use for the browser visualizations? Gorilla repl?

BorisVSchmid 11y ago
As a scientist, I use a mix of Incanter, Quil, and gg4clj bridge to R's ggplot2 for visualization in clojure (none of these outputs to a browser though). R's ggplot2 beats Incanter (or anything other charting library) by a large margin in its excellent mix of conciseness and power, but I find Quil pretty nice for animations (superimposing data on geographical maps, for example). I keep an eye out for new charting libraries coming out for clojure. Last two I spotted were vizard from yieldbot (https://github.com/yieldbot/vizard https://github.com/yieldbot/vizard), and what seems to have only been a small project, xvsy (https://github.com/dvdt/xvsy https://github.com/dvdt/xvsy)
- thom 11y ago
  Hadn't seen those libraries before, thanks for the links. I have to say, Quil is the least Clojurey library I have ever used, and I find it very, very primitive. There's definitely a huge gap for a project built with idiomatic Clojure bindings that can handle both nice graphical stuff but also stodgy charts, with basic stuff like annotation layouts etc. I think something that could work really well if anybody finds the time is a port of G: http://geosoft.no/graphics/ http://geosoft.no/graphics/
  - BorisVSchmid 11y ago
    Late reply, but ran into another plotting library, also from dvdt. https://github.com/dvdt/gyptis https://github.com/dvdt/gyptis It is a nice wrapper around vega. Using that now.

Lofkin 11y ago

Julia will when it can compile to web assembly