> HN hates R. HN loves lisp, and R as a language shares a much greater affinity with lisp languages than python or Go do HN was started by someone who wrote a

> HN hates R. HN loves lisp, and R as a language shares a much greater affinity with lisp languages than python or Go do HN was started by someone who wrote a book on, and flipped a startup using, Lisp. Python and Go are both used a lot by a buyer of startups, and HN exists to deliver startups, or their IP, to those buyers. R is more of a language for helping its users do data analysis, perhaps in corporate offices, and hence doesn't have as much use for HN's business purpose. Submissions on Python and Go are more likely to stick to HN's front page.