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R is a nasty nasty language for productionalizing things, honestly it's just too flexible and let's you do the craziest things.

But being so flexible makes it really expressive for doing ad-hoc analysis where you really don't know what you're looking for yet.

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It’s not just the language/runtime though. It’s the entire ecosystem around that that’s required to productionize it in any modern sense of the word. It’s hard to get right even in Python. I mean Flask (even with restx) still doesn’t even generate Swagger 3 documentation.

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