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Yes, but I'm thinking of a general purpose language like Go that would be used to implement normal things. R is specialized for data analysis. Most "normal thi
by api 8y ago
Yes, but I'm thinking of a general purpose language like Go that would be used to implement normal things. R is specialized for data analysis.
Most "normal things" have designs that are deeply inefficient and compromised by bad under-powered data models.
- chubot 8y agoI'm not suggesting that people actually write business applications in R -- I'm just saying it's probably the closest thing to what you're asking for. And I agree that what you want should exist -- R is proof that it's perfectly possible and natural! Although, people are using (abusing) R to write web apps: https://shiny.rstudio.com/ https://shiny.rstudio.com/ They mostly display data, but they have non-trivial interaction done in the style of JS.