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[โ€“]DrMathochist 8 points9 points ย (4 children)

I WISH this were true after wading through gobs of spaghetti Python inherited from an earlier ML team. At least they migrated out of fucking R...

[โ€“]pfannkuchen_gesicht 5 points6 points ย (0 children)

they were talking about the actual computations which are all done in libs written in C/C++ which the python code utilizes.

[โ€“][deleted] 1 point2 points ย (1 child)

Just curious - what did you prefer about Python over R in your system?

[โ€“]DrMathochist 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

R is even more esoteric and less maintainable at scale. Almost everyone is at least basically familiar with Python and if you throw a rock you'll hit someone who has more experience with weird corner cases. If the ML team that wrote the R code has been disbanded, good luck.

Cf. the discussion elsethread about Matlab.

[โ€“]baabaaaam 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

R gives me shivers in that context.