Why not python?

[lanzalibre]

Hi,

I had a question for the duckling team. I have had the chance to work with duckling for a while and it is a formidable piece of code. I wonder, however, why it was implemented in clojure. It would be great if this library was available in python as many other nlp tools are.

Thanks

[ar7hur]

Thanks for your kind words.
The primary reason is that Duckling was started as a component of the Wit.ai service, entirely written in Clojure. Another reason is that Duckling is quite "functional" (rules can contain any function), and Clojure was a good fit for this approach.