[_Wintermute]

I think the difference is working in teams or with other people's code. Bad python is usually fairly readable, there is a sense of "pythonic" code that the language pushes you towards. R is the complete opposite, there are 50 different ways to do every simple thing, coupled with R users generally not having much sense of good code practices.

Maybe I'm just jaded because I've inherited a 100K+ line R codebase at my job written by a single person with no unit tests and about 3 lines of comments, and it's a completely miserable experience.