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It's selling point is it's not matlab. It's downfall is it's not python. The python scientific compute libraries have they're problems but people are using them
by gravypod 5y ago
It's selling point is it's not matlab. It's downfall is it's not python. The python scientific compute libraries have they're problems but people are using them and math people "get them". I think they have an awful design/api from a programming perspective but most people don't care. Matlab is similarly a strange language but all of it's libraries/tools make what scientists do easy. "Click a button and your code can now run on a compute cluster".
R is very popular with stats people but new PhD candidates are beginning to write python implementations of R things (sort of how like DataFrames/pandas happened).
- Fomite 5y ago"R is very popular with stats people but new PhD candidates are beginning to write python implementations of R things (sort of how like DataFrames/pandas happened)." People have been saying this since I was an undergraduate. I'm submitting my tenure packet this year.
- gravypod 5y ago> People have been saying this since I was an undergraduate. > I'm submitting my tenure packet this year. That doesn't mean it isn't happening. If anything, the fact that the rate of adoption is slow over a long period of time would tell me that there's more stating power here. If suddenly 20% used python that would be a warning sign. If there was .5% year over year for decades.... That's different.
- Fomite 5y agoI'm just saying I have spent my entire career in "The year Python unseats R." and also "The year R unseats Python."
- haihaibye 5y ago> R dropped from 8th place in January 2018 to become the 20th most popular language... At its peak in January 2018, R had a popularity rating of about 2.6%. But today it’s down to 0.8%, according to the TIOBE index. https://www.datanami.com/2019/08/15/is-python-strangling-r-to-death/ https://www.datanami.com/2019/08/15/is-python-strangling-r-t...