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At first I thought they were renaming the IDE, which seemed like a clearly bad idea. Makes sense to rename the company I guess. It tickles my brain every time

At first I thought they were renaming the IDE, which seemed like a clearly bad idea. Makes sense to rename the company I guess. It tickles my brain every time I see it when I am reminded that the same guy who made ColdFusion and a diet app just decided to build a small company based upon a weird stats language 13 years ago. Good for him.

jonnycomputer 4y ago
This. I thought they were renaming the software, which seemed like a really bad move.
westurner 4y ago
Those all sound like good names. From the article: > To avoid this problem and codify our mission into our company charter, we re-incorporated as a Public Benefit Corporation in 2019. > Our charter defines our mission as the creation of free and open source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication. This mission intentionally goes beyond “R for Data Science” — we hope to take the approach that’s succeeded with R and apply it more broadly. We want to build a company that is around in 100 years time that continues to have a positive impact on science and technical communication. We’ve only just started along this road: we’re experimenting with tools for Python and our new Quarto project aims to impact scientific communication far beyond data science. > [...] What does the new name mean for our commercial software? In many ways, nothing: our commercial products have supported Python for over 2 years. But we will rename them to Posit Connect, Posit Workbench, and Posit Package Manager so it’s easier for folks to understand that we support more than just R. What about our open source software? Similarly, not much is changing: our open source software is and will continue to be predominantly for R. That said, over the past few years we’ve already been investing in other languages like reticulate (calling Python from R), Python features for the IDE, and support for Python and Julia within Quarto. You can expect to see more multilanguage experiments in the future. Apache Arrow may be the best solution for data interchange in "polyglot notebooks" with multiple programming languages where SIMDJSON-LD isn't fast enough to share references to structs (with data type URIs and quantity and unit URIs) with IPC and ref counting. https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/2815 https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/2815
kgwgk 4y ago
They _are_ renaming the (commercial) IDE while keeping the name of the (open source) IDE. Using two completely different brands doesn’t seem a good idea either.
isitmadeofglass 4y ago
> At first I thought they were renaming the IDE, which seemed like a clearly bad idea. Which highlights exactly why it’s an amazing idea to rename the company.
prepend 4y ago
ColdFusion was such a horrendous product and I was kind of put off of RStudio for a while when I found out Allaire started it. ColdFusion was something that seemed cool and was kind of clever but it had so many runtime bugs and was way worse than PHP, ASP, and JSP.
- pocketsand 4y ago
  I used it at a college internship because it was the only dynamic language we were allowed to use to access an old Oracle database. At the time (almost 20 years ago), it seemed kind of luxurious compared to PHP. I just looked it up and realized it's still around and still expensive.
kyawzazaw 4y ago
He is my college (Macalester) alum. His brother also built Circle (USDC). Fun fact: both of them studied political science

jonnycomputer 4y ago

This. I thought they were renaming the software, which seemed like a really bad move.

westurner 4y ago

Those all sound like good names. From the article: > To avoid this problem and codify our mission into our company charter, we re-incorporated as a Public Benefit Corporation in 2019. > Our charter defines our mission as the creation of free and open source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication. This mission intentionally goes beyond “R for Data Science” — we hope to take the approach that’s succeeded with R and apply it more broadly. We want to build a company that is around in 100 years time that continues to have a positive impact on science and technical communication. We’ve only just started along this road: we’re experimenting with tools for Python and our new Quarto project aims to impact scientific communication far beyond data science. > [...] What does the new name mean for our commercial software? In many ways, nothing: our commercial products have supported Python for over 2 years. But we will rename them to Posit Connect, Posit Workbench, and Posit Package Manager so it’s easier for folks to understand that we support more than just R. What about our open source software? Similarly, not much is changing: our open source software is and will continue to be predominantly for R. That said, over the past few years we’ve already been investing in other languages like reticulate (calling Python from R), Python features for the IDE, and support for Python and Julia within Quarto. You can expect to see more multilanguage experiments in the future. Apache Arrow may be the best solution for data interchange in "polyglot notebooks" with multiple programming languages where SIMDJSON-LD isn't fast enough to share references to structs (with data type URIs and quantity and unit URIs) with IPC and ref counting. https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/2815 https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/2815

kgwgk 4y ago

They _are_ renaming the (commercial) IDE while keeping the name of the (open source) IDE. Using two completely different brands doesn’t seem a good idea either.

isitmadeofglass 4y ago

> At first I thought they were renaming the IDE, which seemed like a clearly bad idea. Which highlights exactly why it’s an amazing idea to rename the company.

prepend 4y ago

ColdFusion was such a horrendous product and I was kind of put off of RStudio for a while when I found out Allaire started it. ColdFusion was something that seemed cool and was kind of clever but it had so many runtime bugs and was way worse than PHP, ASP, and JSP.

pocketsand 4y ago
I used it at a college internship because it was the only dynamic language we were allowed to use to access an old Oracle database. At the time (almost 20 years ago), it seemed kind of luxurious compared to PHP. I just looked it up and realized it's still around and still expensive.

kyawzazaw 4y ago

He is my college (Macalester) alum. His brother also built Circle (USDC). Fun fact: both of them studied political science