No. R fundamentally has not really improved in the past ~10 years. Do you know much about how R works?

Also try:

gsub('serious', 'hyped', x)

Maybe because it already does what it intends to do reasonably well? I mean, what do you think needs to be improved?

If youre unironically asserting that R already does everything well enough Im not going to take you seriously.

I'm asking what needs to be improved, in your opinion.

That's a normal follow-up question that you should be able to answer. Otherwise, why are you even commenting?

No you arent, youre clearly asking in a rhetorical way. Re-read your post.

Any criticism brought up you'd dismiss. Heres one: lack of native 64 bit integers.

No, I was just asking out of curiosity. You're overthinking too much.

No, you were clearly asserting that R already does everything needed. Stop trying to gaslight.

You're crazy.

Please don't cross into personal attack or name-calling, and please especially avoid this sort of tit-for-tat spat with another user. It's way against the site guidelines and makes for boring reading.

I know it's not always easy to extricate oneself but it's helpful to remember that the only way to 'win' is to stop.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Please don't cross into personal attack or name-calling, and please especially avoid this sort of tit-for-tat spat with another user. It's way against the site guidelines and makes for boring reading.

I know it's not always easy to extricate oneself but it's helpful to remember that the only way to 'win' is to stop.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Yet you haven't provided any substantial points against it and assume that others will take you seriously...

Here are 14 years of HN discussions/criticisms of R: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

"Does what it intends to do reasonably well" is going to be widely subjective, depending on whether the user's use-case is statistical/life-sciences vs more general purpose coding and relying on many packages; prototyping/experimentation vs production code; whether the user uses base-R, or tidyverse/data.table, etc.

Here are two of those many posts:

* An opinionated view of the Tidyverse “dialect” of the R language (July 5, 2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20362626

* The R programming language: The good, the bad, and the ugly (epatters.org, 2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35571659 -> https://www.epatters.org/post/r-lang/

The issue is that even if you peel the hype (which is a fact), python is still far larger.

If you check e.g. the journal of open source software (which does not have much ML/AI bias), most of the papers are python, with an occasional R and julia submission.