Just in case someone reads this far and sees blubber's confident "No." Blubber is definitely wrong here. I used to do all of my programming in R. Throw the question into an LLM if you're wondering if R has a package like ___ in python.
R is not actually competing with those languages. R's design purpose is different. it is a general purpose computational language for scientists. There are FFIs (Foreign Function Interfaces) for all those languages.
R-Kotlin-Jave: https://journal.r-project.org/articles/RJ-2018-066/ R-Rust: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/using_rust.html R-C# : https://github.com/Open-Systems-Pharmacology/rsharp/
R is supporting C integration natively anyhow (see Chambers's book.
Regarding VB reference. VB was used in finance a lot to do some advanced maths. just a side remark.
And I'm still waiting for your examples of "established R packages with bugs caused by R weirdness".