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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by bugglebeetle on Saturday July 08, 2023 @12:39PM (#36646077)
Python is a much older and generalist language than R, so yes, while it would be great to impose this kind of order on things, it’s not practical for its current extent of use.

That being said, after two decades of using Python professionally, the only really problems I’ve ever encountered are “package doesn’t support this version for {reasons}” and “ML library is doing something undocumented and/or dumb with a specific Python version.” The former is normally because the package author is no longer their package and the latter is because, again, the ML community is among the absolute worst at creating solid tooling.

Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by csirac2 on Saturday July 08, 2023 @01:58PM (#36646936)
I don't disagree that Python's place in the ecosystem ("generalist" - i.e. load-bearing distro fossilization in everything from old binary linux distros, container layers, SIEM/SOAR products, serverless runtimes...) leads to much packaging complexity that R just doesn't have

However, Python (1991) is only 2 yrs older than R (1993)

Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by bugglebeetle on Saturday July 08, 2023 @02:42PM (#36647432)
Oh, my bad. I though R was quite a bit younger.
Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by disgruntledphd2 on Sunday July 09, 2023 @08:08AM (#36653801)
And R is a clone of S which is from 1973.
Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by lanstin on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @10:59AM (#36681973)
When people could design systems that work for long periods of time.