Comment by _Wintermute
3 days ago
The increasing prevalence of non-standard evaluation in R packages was one of the major reasons I switched from R to python for my work. The amount of ceremony and constant API changes just to have something as an argument in a function drove me mad.
> nd constant API changes
Yeah, this was so very very painful. I once ended up maintaining a library that basically used all the different NSE approaches, which was not very much fun at all.