[Gatsky]

Background jobs in Rstudio are coming:

https://blog.rstudio.com/2019/03/14/rstudio-1-2-jobs/

Also not sure you can criticize a whole language because some random code you read doesn’t have comments.

[thereby__]

There actually here. They're really great for developing shiny apps. Set the shiny.autoreload option to TRUE. Run the app in the background and point your viewer to the URL et voila