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Library compatibility issues, in particular with Julia and R. It's gotten much better over the last year, but I still run into enough problems that I try to ke
by zhdc1 5y ago
Library compatibility issues, in particular with Julia and R.
It's gotten much better over the last year, but I still run into enough problems that I try to keep all of my actual development work on a remote machine.
- peatmoss 5y agoA few years ago I was using R on OpenBSD. OpenBSD somewhat aggressively removes deprecated features as compared to Linux and macOS. It was really eye-opening to see how bit-rotted some parts of the scientific / numeric ecosystem are. I ended up submitting some trivial PRs deep in the stack for use of system calls that have been deprecated but not removed from Linux for a decade or more.