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I guess it's impossible to know what you've seen before and dismissed as not having sufficient features/attributes/popularity. Or what types of project would cause you to dig in but here are a few innovative projects using clojure that represent a fairly diverse set of interests. - https://github.com/overtone/overtone - https://xtdb.com/ - https://github.com/kennytilton/matrix - https://github.com/metasoarous/oz

Anyone have experience with both MatPlotLib and Vega / Vega-lite? I like working in Clojure and am just about to do a bunch of data-viz. I've only done a simple line chart so far, and I used this oz library for interfacing with Clojure and displaying results in the browser. [1] One of the problems was lack of error messages. Not sure what part of the tooling was failing me there. [1]. https://github.com/metasoarous/oz

> Finally I'm not really sure of the point of being declarative if it only supports JavaScript anyway. Maybe they plan a WASM implementation? Vega schemas are JSON and JSON is quite portable, despite its JS origins. Vega has actually become fairly popular in the Clojure ecosystem (see e.g. https://github.com/metasoarous/oz) due to how well the data-orientation fits the Clojure philosophy. I also think Altair for Python is quite popular (https://github.com/altair-viz/altair) and that is a Vega-lite library.

REPL-driven development is wonderful. Clojure does have notebook solutions which are worth looking into: * https://github.com/clojupyter/clojupyter * https://github.com/jsa-aerial/saite * https://pink-gorilla.github.io (WIP, but is growing fast and going to be magnificent) Some other projects are trying to connect the notebook idea with the REPL+editor experience. For example: * https://github.com/metasoarous/oz

CIDER has been the best programming environment I have experienced (probably haven't tried enough of SLIME though). It combines coding with dynamic experimentation in such a fun way. For literate programming, the Clojure/Clojurescript ecosystem keeps bringing up fascinating environments (in addition to CIDER+Org-mode and Clojupyter). https://github.com/metasoarous/oz https://github.com/jsa-aerial/saite https://github.com/pink-gorilla/gorilla-notebook are all actively developed and worth following, and they are all rather innovative in the ideas they bring to the table. For polyglot reproducible literate programming, there is also https://nextjournal.com (implemented in Clojure/Clojurescript).