Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?
by dekhn on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @05:20PM
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If there is anything in R that is better, it could be ported. It's kind of different from language intrinsics that can't be easily ported. In fact I think there's a great argument for writing a standardized data processing and visual representation layer in C++, and then making it usable from all the languages.
It would be nice if this was true for the notebook layer.
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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?
by disgruntledphd2 on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @05:26AM
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It's the domain knowledge that's difficult. Like the example up thread about the lack of generalised additive models. The version in R was written originally by the developers of the method. There's no Python version because no one with sufficient expertise has ported it.
Don't get me wrong, I know mostly write Python because it's a better general purpose language but there are big big tradeoffs.