[kvnhn]

Thank you! I've seen this language/extension/library pop up a few times and I don't see, even remotely, how it could displace the Python data science stack. The biggest competitor to Python in this space, IMO, is Julia. Go+ seems light-years behind, and heading in the wrong direction entirely.

[edumucelli]

R is the competitor, actually many of things in the Python data stack are directly copied from R: seaborn's ~ operator, dataframe, ...

[kvnhn]

My point is that I enjoy the Python stack, and I'm seriously considering Julia on future projects; I'm not giving R the same consideration. Python vs. R is almost a matter of taste IMO. I vastly prefer Python to R for data science. That's not to throw shade at R. Like you suggested, the Python stack owes R everything.