In decades I have not encountered any development environment where the obscurity of error message presentation can touch R. If one uses other languages or buil

In decades I have not encountered any development environment where the obscurity of error message presentation can touch R. If one uses other languages or build environments the error messages can frequently be used to diagnose the issue. In R they default to just vomiting some internal exception often with no context, and I can count the times I have encountered helpful or even seemingly deliberately constructed error messaging in single-place base five. Even kernel development is in some sense better because at least there you are in context and the layers are traversable. Seemingly one of the primary skills of an R programmer is serving as an informal database of “what the fuck does this mean?” when the issue is something trivially detectable like passing a list vs a vector.