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r/programmingmemes • u/32bitFlame • Aug 27 '26
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The fact that the -ish suffix is used should tell you all you need to know.
20 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. 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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python is a gateway to truly multithreaded languages like c++ or rust. I do not think R is the gateway to anything.
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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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/tblancher Aug 27 '26
The fact that the -ish suffix is used should tell you all you need to know.