On: Giving up on Julia (2016)

[xiphias2]

R is a hybrid of a very slow language and statistical algorithms written in C that can't be debugged. Also the libraries don't have name spaces, not strongly typed, and there are many other features and libraries that show their age.

My favourite examples of Julia's great type system are its automatic differentation libraries that take a native function and wouldn't be possible with R.

[jghn → xiphias2]

R has had namespaces for roughly 15 years now: http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/namespace.html

[xiaodai → jghn]

not like python's though. The full name of the package have to be used. e.g. np and pd are not possible with R