On: R vs. Python for Data Science

[shusson]

Hmm I got the feeling that in genomics things were moving towards python too e.g https://github.com/hail-is/hail.

[Gatsky → shusson]

People are writing some nice bioinf software in python sure, but pull papers from Nature or Science and you will see heavy R usage. My point is that the contention that Python is the only game in town is just false.