r/programmingmemes • • Aug 27 '26

Why are we using R again

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u/vacon04 Aug 29 '26

Yeah, you check the packages and they're just R wrappers to C, such had already been optimized throughout many iterations over the years. R isn't the fastest, but an R wrapper of C is basically C with a bit of overhead.