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by twobitshifter 742 days ago
It’s not a really good article in that way. There should be a decision tree per application that guides you to the language choice.

What are the R packages and what is available in Python? Are the Python or R packages just calling a C library after all, then does memory or single threading matter?

What about Julia, can you better express your thoughts and equations in Julia and that’s most important for your project?

Do you want to work in notebooks or build ‘production’ code?

Do you need to put your work on the web?