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by noiwillnot 1492 days ago
> Is possible that Julia will replace R for a lot of use cases

R is a interactive statistical programming language that acts as a frontend for more performance languages. AFAIK interactivity is not the strongest points of Julia at the moment.
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MontyCarloHall 1492 days ago
>interactivity is not the strongest points of Julia at the moment

Not sure what you mean. Julia has the exact same notebook environment (Jupyter) as R and Python. Fun fact: the “Ju” in Jupyter stands for “Julia” (the “pyt” and “r” stand for what you think).

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noiwillnot 1491 days ago
Few people in the R world use Jupyter environment, they are generally inferior to use the Rstudio environment. This might change in the future though, VSCode and DataSpell are becoming really good. Jupyter Labs are slowly improving too.
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markkitti 1491 days ago
Julia has some excellent interactive front ends.

For example, take a look at the reactive Julia notebook, Pluto.jl: https://plutojl.org/plutocon2021

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