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Re:Go+: Go designed for data science by kvnhn on Saturday March 27, 2021 @03:43PM (#26604966)
Thank you! I've seen this language/extension/library pop up a few times and I don't see, even remotely, how it could displace the Python data science stack. The biggest competitor to Python in this space, IMO, is Julia. Go+ seems light-years behind, and heading in the wrong direction entirely.
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Re:Go+: Go designed for data science by edumucelli on Saturday March 27, 2021 @04:00PM (#26605112)
R is the competitor, actually many of things in the Python data stack are directly copied from R: seaborn's ~ operator, dataframe, ...
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Re:Go+: Go designed for data science by kvnhn on Saturday March 27, 2021 @07:04PM (#26606434)
My point is that I enjoy the Python stack, and I'm seriously considering Julia on future projects; I'm not giving R the same consideration. Python vs. R is almost a matter of taste IMO. I vastly prefer Python to R for data science. That's not to throw shade at R. Like you suggested, the Python stack owes R everything.
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