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I think R is elegant, what's inelegant in it (other than the code lots of non-programmers write with it)?
The type system is so abhorrent, it makes me wonder if it's actually proper to call R a real programming language
Once again, Elixir community takes something and brings it to the next level. In my opinion Jose Valim is the Linus Torvalds of programming languages, but differently from Linus not only he is a 100x engineer, he's also one of the humblest and kindest person I've ever met (don't get me wrong, I love Linus, but he can be "too honest" at times and comes out as harsh or rude). From Elixir came Phoenix, from Phoenix came…
What is the rationale for using a programming language runtime designed for distributed computing for local data analysis?
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The type system is so abhorrent, it makes me wonder if it's actually proper to call R a real programming language
what specifically is abhorrent about it?
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Can you make a pitch to a Python/R user to give this a try? What you’ve built looks very nice and heard nothing but good things about elixir elsewhere, but would take a lot to leave those much more robust ecosystems. Do you hope to grow into that over time? Is there enough in terms of viz, statistical models, and ml to survive?
José from the Livebook team. I don't think I can make a pitch because I have limited Python/R experience to use as reference. My suggestion is for you to give it a try for a day or two and see what you think. I am pretty sure you will find weak spots and I would be very happy to hear any feedback you may have. You can find my email on my GitHub profile (same username). In general we have grown a lot since the Numeric…
Once again, Elixir community takes something and brings it to the next level. In my opinion Jose Valim is the Linus Torvalds of programming languages, but differently from Linus not only he is a 100x engineer, he's also one of the humblest and kindest person I've ever met (don't get me wrong, I love Linus, but he can be "too honest" at times and comes out as harsh or rude). From Elixir came Phoenix, from Phoenix came…
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what specifically is abhorrent about it?
The coercion always gets on my nerves, JavaScript gets a bad rep but R is pretty damn warty too; weird ass data types ('ordered factor', anyone) that just seem so very far away from design choices in other languages without being particularly ergonomic or aesthetically appealing
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what specifically is abhorrent about it?
The coercion always gets on my nerves, JavaScript gets a bad rep but R is pretty damn warty too; weird ass data types ('ordered factor', anyone) that just seem so very far away from design choices in other languages without being particularly ergonomic or aesthetically appealing
Weird data types: R had been designed for and by statisticians with their specific needs in mind, which indeed could look weird to regular people.
The video overview says the journey in data is "just starting". That's exciting! Any ideas or vision for where it's going in the future? Also, I noticed in the demo that installing polars was very fast! Was the video trimmed, or was it cached or something? I remember when I last tried out polars in Elixir a while ago, it had to build the rust library and everything and took like 10 minutes.
Things that are in our roadmap in relation to our data vision: * Data management within your notebook ( https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/issues/1604 ) - we want you to be able to link files, urls, and object storages to your notebook and automatically manage/download it * We want to make it easier to build visualizations (even easier than the current Chart smart cell) and also be able to filter a dataframe by…
That would let people who are getting into Elixir for data work run a query, get an Explorer.DataFrame, and interact further that way.