SMRTR ProgrammingNov 25, 2025Hacker News

Python is not a great language for data science

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A computational biology professor argues Python is overused in data science due to historical reasons, not suitability. His 20-year lab experience shows simple data analysis consistently takes longer in Python than R.

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