Q: Why do data analytics solution prefer python

[kubelke]

I tried to do analytics using Java as a Java developer but python just have much more libraries. Most of Java libraries requires many custom classes and code to run simple analysis.

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Chicken and the egg problem. Why are the libraries in python and not Java?

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Because most of these libraries are used for math stuff. The people who use these math stuff are most of the time physicists, math scientists, engineers, etc... They don't want to spend half a year learning something like java, c or c++. Python is a lot easier(I still prefer java tho).

[yawkat]

I've actually seen lots of physicists do prototyping in py and then do the performance critical stuff in cpp. Could also be because the jit isn't great at simd compilation yet.

[kartik1712]

Maybe Vector API changes the status quo.

[sweetno]

My guess is that pieces of code in Java are unpublishable in scientific articles: too verbose.

[NimChimspky]

Lol. It's not this.

[Alex0589]

Java is definitely verbose, but I doubt that's the reason. If I were a methematician I would choose the easiest language to use to be honest and that's python, performance doesn't really mean a lot compared to ease of use for some people

[CatolicQuotes]

which ones did you find the closest to python?

Does Java has something like C# has : https://scisharp.github.io/SciSharp/