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R vs. Python flamewars always strike me as a Budweiser vs. Miller kind of argument. Neither is really a “craft beer” of programming languages. Neither are super
by peatmoss 6y ago
R vs. Python flamewars always strike me as a Budweiser vs. Miller kind of argument. Neither is really a “craft beer” of programming languages. Neither are super remarkable as programming languages. Both made a bunch pragmatic tradeoffs to appeal to large audiences that share similar values—both are “average joe” beers.
Python has comparative advantages over R in production roles. R has comparative advantage in statistical libraries, visualization, and meta programming. Neither are exemplars for production deployment or meta programming (R is an exemplar for stats libraries however).
- canjobear 6y agoTidyverse absolutely has a hipster craft beer feel to it. I think it's great, but it's true.
- ct0 6y agoThere is nothing more hip than library(tidyverse) that I've found in python.
- civilized 6y agoI'm really into this package that lets you manipulate tabular data using dozens of different systems with the exact same code Yeah, you've probably never heard of it