erlang-port-with-python VS libpython-clj

I think Elixir would be interesting for your usecase.

It's a dynamic, garbage collected language. It's easy to pick up and get going with. As a functional programming language there isn't a lot to learn in the way of language constructs, and you don't even have to do the 'wrestling with the type system' thing that you have to do in compiled functional languages like OCaml.

Its processing 'horsepower' is probably comparable to Python, but it's much better for building low latency things if you want to run something in a bit more of a production use case. This is also improving due to the recent addition of a JIT.

The addition of NX is making Elixir an increasingly interesting place to do ML - write Elixir, have it run on GPU etc. See https://dashbit.co/blog/nx-numerical-elixir-is-now-publicly-...

Python integration is probably best done using the Erlang 'port' system - running Python as a managed process and communicating with it using messages over stdin/stdout. I use it for C interop and it works well (and fits well with the Elixir/Erlang process model). It's not difficult to roll your own in Python e.g. https://github.com/fujimisakari/erlang-port-with-python/blob... or look at something like http://erlport.org/

It’s also worth noting that Clojure has libpython-clj (https://github.com/clj-python/libpython-clj) which offers an interface with Python from another lisp. Here are some advanced ML and dataviz examples using that lib: https://github.com/gigasquid/libpython-clj-examples.

Basically, you take a programming language and make it work on a platform that meant to be programmed using a different PL. Clojure is hosted by design - it's not Java, but can be used to program for JVM. It ain't Javascript, but can be used to target nodejs and browser; not an [official] CLR language, but you can write .Net programs. You can use Clojure to make Flutter apps with ClojureDart. You can integrate Python into Clojure with libpython-clj. Or write Clojure to target Erlang/OTP; or Rust; or R; There's even a clojure-like language for Lua - Fennel.

There's something about Clojure people like so much, they want it to work atop any platform.

https://github.com/Tensegritics/ClojureDart

https://github.com/clj-python/libpython-clj

https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl

https://github.com/clojure-rs/ClojureRS

https://github.com/scicloj/clojisr

https://fennel-lang.org

There's this project that's used a lot for taking advantage of Pythons ecosystem through Clojure JVM. https://github.com/clj-python/libpython-clj

Ahh, makes sense. Well, if you ever wanna steal some of python's thunder, libpython-clj worked great for me lol. Supposedly py4cl fills a similar role in Common Lisp.

High quality interop with any python library via libpython-clj including, but not limited to, keras, numpy, matplotlib, and pandas. This includes zero copy paths from many of those.

libpython-clj now has Java bindings...go tell all your Java friends!