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by usgroup
1244 days ago
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TLDR: Author switched to Julia because he “fell in love” with it, with no further qualification. He then speaks a bit about multiple dispatch and how it’s useful when it’s suitable. Personally I saw nothing here that might actually convince someone to switch. R + Tidyverse + Rcpp + CRAN is formidable. |
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Rcpp is the worst thing that ever happened to humanity. Crazy build system, impossible magic words and macros, poisons an entire C or C++ project with new headers etc., extremely to downright impossibly hard to compile without R specific compiler tools. Two different build systems for whatever reasons in sourceCpp, compiler just includes arbitrary files, maintainer is ahem extremely condescending to any Q&A questions on SO and GH and doesn't understand why crazy long errors aren't just obvious