Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?
by nl on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @08:04PM
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This is a good point.
I've done a fair bit of R and there is no doubt that as a pure data science tool it's usually quicker to produce something than Python.
But I prefer Python because inevitably any data science project ends up having other "bits" that aren't pure data science, and Python's super string general purpose computing libraries are hard to beat.
I've done a fair bit of R and there is no doubt that as a pure data science tool it's usually quicker to produce something than Python.
But I prefer Python because inevitably any data science project ends up having other "bits" that aren't pure data science, and Python's super string general purpose computing libraries are hard to beat.