Aside from the libraries issues... Understand I'm talking about in the context of my workplaces and experiences, which, also in my experience, are a significan

Aside from the libraries issues... Understand I'm talking about in the context of my workplaces and experiences, which, also in my experience, are a significant number of employers hiring data science-type jobs. An alternative doesn't exist in the sense that we've been battling for years to get things that are more open and aren't SAS/Matlab/SPSS. Finally we're at the stage where something is finally getting semi-approved and installed reliably and the doors are opening...and its...R. Python is becoming more common. Admittedly. And kudos to anaconda for its non-admin requiring install. But in some ways even installing that is a bit "naughty". But Julia, Java, Scala, C? No no. Those are programming languages. Software companies get those. Maybe a handful of guys in IT if they need it for some reason, but many are still working in places where most IT/security staff can't tell the difference between R and RStudio. Github is blocked by the firewall and security :P So the idea of options...maybe in another 10 years :P Until then, we take what we can get...