Comment by nyrikki

> Contrast this with equivalent code that is full of logistics, where I’m using only basic Python language features and no special data wrangling package

While I am not a python cheerleader, but a user because the reality is that it is a pretty good glue language, the above is a bit of a problem.

Duckdb, pandas, numpy etc.. is what makes python nice.

About a decade ago I worked at a major BI software company and ran into another silly problem when trying to evangelize R, wikis kbs and search engines don’t like single letter search terms.

So it didn’t matter how much better R was at the time, people found learning it more difficult than it should have been.