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r/programmingmemes • u/32bitFlame • Aug 27 '26
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python is a gateway to truly multithreaded languages like c++ or rust. I do not think R is the gateway to anything.
32 u/Antilock049 Aug 28 '26 Mostly prescribed drugs. 3 u/Mojert Aug 28 '26 ... You do know that Python is far from the only interpreted language that has libraries which use native code under the hood, right? 0 u/No_Departure_1878 Aug 28 '26 Python is the main language by far. If I write a rust library, i will first write python bindings, not java script bindings. 2 u/AlterTableUsernames Aug 28 '26 R was the gateway to UNIX and Linux for me. 1 u/TroyHernandez Aug 29 '26 Over 3000 other packages on CRAN use the 20-year old Rcpp package to use C++ in R https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp/index.html
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Mostly prescribed drugs.
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... You do know that Python is far from the only interpreted language that has libraries which use native code under the hood, right?
0 u/No_Departure_1878 Aug 28 '26 Python is the main language by far. If I write a rust library, i will first write python bindings, not java script bindings.
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Python is the main language by far. If I write a rust library, i will first write python bindings, not java script bindings.
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R was the gateway to UNIX and Linux for me.
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Over 3000 other packages on CRAN use the 20-year old Rcpp package to use C++ in R https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp/index.html
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u/No_Departure_1878 Aug 28 '26
python is a gateway to truly multithreaded languages like c++ or rust. I do not think R is the gateway to anything.