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by keeeba 206 days ago
As a fairly extensive user of both Python and R, I net out similarly.

If I want to wrangle, explore, or visualise data I’ll always reach for R.

If I want to build ML/DL models or work with LLM’s I will usually reach for Python.

Often in the same document - nowadays this is very easy with Quarto.
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Joel_Mckay 206 days ago
Python has a list of issues fundamentally broken in the language, and relies heavily on integrated library bindings to operate at reasonable speeds/accuracy.

Julia allows embedding both R and Python code, and has some very nice tools for drilling down into datasets:

https://www.queryverse.org/

It is the first language I've seen in decades that reduces entire paradigms into single character syntax, often outperforming both C and Numpy in many cases. =3

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pphysch 206 days ago
Deeply ironic for a Julia proponent to smear a popular language as "fundamentally broken" without evidence.

https://yuri.is/not-julia/

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kelipso 206 days ago
This is like one of those people posting Dijkstra’s letter advocating for 0-based indexing without ever having read or understood what they posted.
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pphysch 206 days ago
What does indexing syntax have to do with Julia having a rough history of correctness bugs and footguns?
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Joel_Mckay 205 days ago
Sure, all software is terrible if looking at bug frequency history...

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues

Griefers ranting about years old _closed_ tickets on v1.0.5 versions on a blog as some sort of proof of lameness... is a poorly structured argument. Julia includes regression testing features built into even its plotting library output, and thus issues usually stay resolved due to pedantic reproducibility. Also, running sanity-checks in any llvm language code is usually wise.

Best of luck =3

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pphysch 205 days ago
Just saying, "other languages have bug reports" is a exceptionally poor way to promote Julia =3
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Joel_Mckay 206 days ago
Python threading and computational errata issues go back a long time. It is a popular integration "glue" language, but is built on SWiG wrappers to work around its many unresolved/unsolvable problems.

Not a "smear", but rather a well known limitation of the language. Perhaps your environment context works differently than mine.

It is bizarre people get emotionally invested in something so trivial and mundane. Julia is at v1.12.2 so YMMV, but Queryverse is a lot of fun =3

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