> Python has a huge amount of introductory learning material that assumes it is your first language, while most FP languages (Ex: Clojure, Haskell, F#, Scala, OCaml) really struggle in this area
I don't know how long ago have you tried Clojure, but it is a lot easier to start with than Haskell or Scala. There are now more than a dozen of books available (for the beginner and for the advanced levels). Clojure is much better than Python - it has extremely nice, consistent standard library; It has "true" REPL - with it you can evaluate almost any chunk of your code with no preliminary ritual, even much praised Jupyter doesn't feel as nice; Clojure not statically typed but it has Spec, which is totally awesome - the way how you can derive property based tests is almost mind-blowing; Clojure's stability is almost legendary; It makes concurrency simple; It makes dealing with dependencies less painful;
It can seamlessly run on both: front-end and back-end, having live-updates in your browser and REPL connected to it feels like magic. Honestly, transforming data using Clojure is a pure joy.
I don't know how long ago have you tried Clojure, but it is a lot easier to start with than Haskell or Scala. There are now more than a dozen of books available (for the beginner and for the advanced levels). Clojure is much better than Python - it has extremely nice, consistent standard library; It has "true" REPL - with it you can evaluate almost any chunk of your code with no preliminary ritual, even much praised Jupyter doesn't feel as nice; Clojure not statically typed but it has Spec, which is totally awesome - the way how you can derive property based tests is almost mind-blowing; Clojure's stability is almost legendary; It makes concurrency simple; It makes dealing with dependencies less painful; It can seamlessly run on both: front-end and back-end, having live-updates in your browser and REPL connected to it feels like magic. Honestly, transforming data using Clojure is a pure joy.