[stoperaticless]

s/serious/hyped

[aydyn]

No. R fundamentally has not really improved in the past ~10 years. Do you know much about how R works?

Also try:

gsub('serious', 'hyped', x)

[lottin]

Maybe because it already does what it intends to do reasonably well? I mean, what do you think needs to be improved?

[smcin]

Here are 14 years of HN discussions/criticisms of R: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

"Does what it intends to do reasonably well" is going to be widely subjective, depending on whether the user's use-case is statistical/life-sciences vs more general purpose coding and relying on many packages; prototyping/experimentation vs production code; whether the user uses base-R, or tidyverse/data.table, etc.

Here are two of those many posts:

* An opinionated view of the Tidyverse “dialect” of the R language (July 5, 2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20362626

* The R programming language: The good, the bad, and the ugly (epatters.org, 2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35571659 -> https://www.epatters.org/post/r-lang/

[aydyn]

If youre unironically asserting that R already does everything well enough Im not going to take you seriously.

[skotobaza]

Yet you haven't provided any substantial points against it and assume that others will take you seriously...

[lottin]

I'm asking what needs to be improved, in your opinion.

That's a normal follow-up question that you should be able to answer. Otherwise, why are you even commenting?

[aydyn]

No you arent, youre clearly asking in a rhetorical way. Re-read your post.

Any criticism brought up you'd dismiss. Heres one: lack of native 64 bit integers.

[lottin]

No, I was just asking out of curiosity. You're overthinking too much.

[openrisk]

The issue is that even if you peel the hype (which is a fact), python is still far larger.

If you check e.g. the journal of open source software (which does not have much ML/AI bias), most of the papers are python, with an occasional R and julia submission.