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> I always thought R was a vestigial artifact of the bad old days of computing that had no place in the Real World

Why on Earth did you think that? Because it's not what the hip frontend devs use?

Probably because it's full of inconsistencies and gotchas, largely caused by backwards compatibility with S.

Its not as bad as most people make it out to be

What programming language isn't full of inconsistencies and gotchas?

Because it has five assignment operators and a tendency to fail silently and to keep going after something errors, producing bad results for people that aren't programmers and maybe aren't good at debugging, and is only usable if you install a third party package (tidyverse).

Keeping going after errors is common for many scripting languages, isn't it?

No idea. Silently failing and continuation is a complete anti-feature if you want correct results in your data pipeline though.

I get it, you like R. I'm not interested in litigating this any further.

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