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I pretty much had the same experience with R. I've never been able to get really productive with it as a software developer. I feel like I know too much and can

I pretty much had the same experience with R. I've never been able to get really productive with it as a software developer. I feel like I know too much and can't break from old habbits. It's very academic which I feel really holds it back from software devs and also captures non developers in it's web. Whilst it's certainly got some runs on the board. I think having data science folk work in more standard languages would actually make supporting them and their needs easier.

notagoodidea 5y ago
Funny, I'll never say that R itself is very academic. The environment maybe, the users sure but the language is very much an mutated Lisp with vectorized operation. Same for the python stuff, I never hit that problem working a lot with it but most of the time when I wanted to check a lib, I landed in C++ aka I am not sure to understand how to read the code. What in R made it feel academic for you?
- haihaibye 5y ago
  For one, R has a built in citation() function. Secondly, it seems optimised for producing one off figures and results, not production systems generally desired by industry.