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Asked: 2026-06-03T16:08:03+00:00

I am working on a big project that involves a lot of web based

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I am working on a big project that involves a lot of web based and AI work. I am extremely comfortable with Python, though my only concern is with concurrent programming and scaling this project to make it work on clusters. Thus, Clojure for AI and support for Java function calls and bring about concurrent programming.

Is this a good idea to do all the web-based api work with Python and let Clojure take care of most of the concurrent AI work?

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Let me explain the interaction in detail. Python would be doing most of the dirty work (scraping, image processing, improving the database and all that.) Clojure, if possible, would either deal with the data base or get the data from Python. I except something CPython sort of linking with Python and Clojure.

Edit2:
Might be a foolish question to ask, but this being a rather long term project which will evolve quite a bit and go under several iterations, is Clojure a language here to stay? Is it portable enough?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I built an embarrassingly parallel number-crunching application with a backend in Clojure (on an arbitrary number of machines) and a frontend in Ruby on Rails. I don’t particularly like RoR, but this was a zero-budget project at the time and we had a Rails programmer at hand who was willing to work for free.

    The Clojure part consisted of (roughly) a controller, number crunching nodes, and a server implementing a JSON-over-HTTP API which was the interface to the Rails web app. The Clojure nodes used RabbitMQ to talk to each other. Because we defined clear APIs between different parts of the application, it was easy to later rewrite the frontend in Clojure (because that better suited our needs).

    If you’re working on a distributed project with a long life span and continuous development effort, it could make sense to design the application as a number of separate modules that communicate through well defined APIs (json, bson, … over AMQP, HTTP, … or a database). That means you can get started quickly using a language you’re comfortable with, and rewrite parts in another language at a later stage if necessary.

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