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Not just that. Disco also provides a distributed storage service for locality of reference when doing Map-Reduce.

This, in turn, might be something you'd use to build a tailored distributed system where you'd call out to Python (and its ecosystem, like Pandas, etc.) to do your own data processing.

My personal interest in it is that it uses LISP Flavored Erlang (lfe.io) and might therefore be nice to use with Hy (hylang.org)

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Nice that you mention Pandas ... it's on the list for being supported by lsci (which in turn will be using LFE py).

As for Hy: LFE py comes with custom ErlPort encoders/decoders, and I came this close to writing those in Hy. However, I did want anyone with a Python background to be able to easily read and contribute, not just Lispers ;-)

Regardless, it would be nice to use with Hy (and probably trivial: a requirements.txt update, and then adding some Hy modules in ./python/lfe, at which point you should be able to access them from LFE).