Comment by benrutter
15 hours ago
I'm not sure. wording like this:
> We anticipate many RStudio users will be curious about Positron.
Heavily implies it as a seperate thing that will continue to be maintained. They haven't said they're getting rid of support for Rstudio.
I think this is probably more that Posit have been trying to move more and more into the Python space, since that's where most data science is happenening. Rstudio has a great but is obviously very associated with R, so making a similarly intended project that is more explicit is supporting other languages isn't inherently a bad shout.
It will continue to be maintained, but if lots of R people move to Positron then RStudio's features will start to lag, and they'll eventually deprecate it.
Unless this has recently changed, the support for LLM coding tools in RStudio is so bare bones that I would expect many users to switch to Positron just for that.