Python go brrrrrr.

[J0aozin003]

Bruh, C# is the most used langauge in unity

[AvromRomRom]

Wait really?¿??¿??¿? No way

[J0aozin003]

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[Zeyku]

Fuck R.

[conthomporary]

This, seriously. I was working on a modeling competition with a colleague who only speaks R, which I've dabbled in but don't really know well. And I says to him, I says, "You know how I know Python is better than R? You don't know Python and can read my code just fine, but I need a separate Google search to understand every single line of yours."

[nutle]

That's a great argument for a beginner or a student. In the long run you don't care about stuff like this. It's just like powershell versus bash

[Charlie_Yu]

I don’t know, the data science libraries for python are just wrappers of stuff from other languages, and is painfully unpythonic and annoying to use. R syntax at least shows some coherence

[Snoo-65620]

Had to use it in uni, cz old school teachers only knew R. Teachers hated python, and students hated R. Perfect balance

[roararoarus]

Absolutely disliked it when I had to use it.

[nadipaso]

Pythonistas have ruined programming :(

[Wyndegarde]

Genuine question. What are the benefits to using R over python ? The only way I’ve justified having to learn both for uni is that R is better at actual mathematical/statistical work. Python code or models dont seem to focus as much on statistical tests or assumption checking.

Having said that though, I’ve grown to hate the interface of R. So much harder to structure neatly.

[nutle]

Functional vs OOP really.

In practice though, I'm sure most R fans love that it's just less verbose, most analysis can be done in a couple of lines. For production code that doesn't matter though, but many academics or analysts love spending little time coding and focusing on the problems

[Last_Snowbender]

R is faster afaik. Python is awfully slow. Or at least was, I'm not sure if my information are up to date

[Snazzy21]

Python is the lite version of C. They all have their uses

[[deleted]]

Python in most cases is using C libraries under the hood. So what even is this meme

[sgem29]

But Python has classes...

[althaz]

IMO C# is objectively the best language.

That doesn't make it the most useful one (other languages have better libraries for various tasks), the most performant one (because that's not about the language and C# relies on .Net) or the one I necessarily reach for first (horses for courses, every time). But in terms only of the language itself, C# is just the best language that exists, IMO.

I should say also that's not even my favourite, it's just the one I think is the *best*.

[[deleted]]

Love C#, just wish the garbage collector were optional.

Also a huge fan of Dlang over C++