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R has much better syntax with tidyverse for data wrangling and even up to models with tidymodels and all. Python in comparison is hard to read.

What... Have you seen the piping syntax in tidyverse? It's incomprehensible unless you put in a lot of effort to understand all that's going on.

What is incomprehensible about it?

Grandparent commenter mentioned the piping syntax, specifically.

I dunno, I got pretty sick of writing head(filter(df, value>10)) and it's (a little) easier to indent as df %>% filter(value>10) %>% head().

It's problematic because people abuse it for everything (300 line pipes are common, sadly) but it's a really useful tool in moderation.

This is such an odd take. I program almost exclusively Python these days and I miss the elegance of piped functions daily.