@scheidegger @johnmyleswhite @avibryant so dichotomy might be F in theory; but useful in practice because good work outside your home lang
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@hadleywickham @scheidegger @avibryant For me, R's value depends on another dimension: desire to call functions vs. desire to write them.
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@johnmyleswhite Can see value in both approaches: Julia makes it easier for users to become developers; R specialised for non-programmers
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@hadleywickham For me, R's competition was tools like SPSS rather than other languages.
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@johnmyleswhite Yeah. If you look at the summary of features on the julia homepage, v. few have direct relevant to R users
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@hadleywickham Fully agree. I think the Julia community has come to realize that it's easiest to win over unhappy C++ users.
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@johnmyleswhite an RJulia that worked liked Rcpp would be really interesting (as would an Rgo)
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@hadleywickham @johnmyleswhite FWIW, Rgo seems like a real possibility with the existence of cgo
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@hadleywickham @kevin_ushey I do have a knack for pun-tastic names - maybe I should work for an ads company. wait a sec ... ;)
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.@craigcitro @hadleywickham @kevin_ushey My preference always was to call it 'argot': goo.gl/hDIVhL. And no, not working on it.
Jul 19, 2014 · 10:33 PM UTC
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