I remember reading some posts early on, either on Reddit or in the mailing list, where people asked about its suitability for web frameworks and servers. The id

I remember reading some posts early on, either on Reddit or in the mailing list, where people asked about its suitability for web frameworks and servers. The idea was that what it let you abstract away, and what it made easy to do at a low level would work well in that problem space, too. However, it was pretty actively discouraged. I suspect they didn't want a lot of voices influencing the direction of the language while it was still being formed. A lot of what make R a poor general purpose language help make it effective in its specific domain for its specific users. It might be worth people taking another look at it after 1.0 is released, as long as they have low expectations about influencing the direction of the language's development.