The ergonomics of R are terrible compared to Mathematica. (My opinion, obviously.) In R, packages are developed by separate authors. Similar functions don't ha

The ergonomics of R are terrible compared to Mathematica. (My opinion, obviously.) In R, packages are developed by separate authors. Similar functions don't have similar interfaces. There's no unity of style. In Mathematica, much more careful thought was given to everything, including at a very basic level: names of functions. Now I'm a big fan of the Tidyverse, and the fact that such a post-hoc language cleanup was possible (and done) is amazing... but the fact that it was necessary [1] is not. [1] Really not intending flame-bait. This is an opinion that many people disagree with. Perhaps like systemd. It isn't the substance of this comment, it's just the context for my remarks.