How well does Python play with Kafka as opposed to Clojure? Kafka seems like the right fit to solve a problem at work, and most of our people use python.

In python you don't have a repl and interactive environment

If you shoiud motivate your team I would emphasize on this. A part also that the risk is that in python people endup to overload and create objects for nothing

Also for code Quality I would pickup clojure, Kafka should have both libs.

Most of the time, I would argue people pickup python for just do the most hack in quick way as possible. So in long-term imho you have poor quality over speed etc. Imho is not really a tech question but rather a company culture etc

From experience, writing python code is extremely difficult. You have basically no constraints on the language. Writing clojure code with quality is less difficult because of the constraints

I guess it depends on what you will do with the data more than anything. python/clojure both have good (and probably similarly performant) clients to interact with kafka otherwise. python vs clojure (at large) is another debate

I find that because python is so flexible, writing it within the bounds of a set of (perhaps implicitly-defined) idioms, and doing so with discipline, is almost a similar experience to trying to speak eloquently in english. When I do a good job-- my code runs well and I've got a really consistent sort of colloquialism-- I'm always pretty proud of my work.

Yep agree. Although honestly I don't see any advantage with accessing data with python

I mean comparing the clojure way with destructoring etc. In python for read a file you wanna create some objects and do a parser

Then you have other objects, I mean to mee all this objects Tangled everywhere for just data is more a cognitive load

this was a fun re-read https://jkkramer.com/sudoku.html

thx for sharing