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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 21/09/2026

I think most new code should probably be in typescript or rust, because they're popular and good languages that are well represented in training. BUT there's still a place for codecraft in science & and regulated envs! And wait, that's where I work now! There's a place for us #RStats weirdos!

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was looking at metrics at my (admittedly New Zealand) University recently, and I can make a very strong case that most of the research code being written here is ATM in R, and it is the Linga Franca of evidence discussions (where speed is not the optimisation, understanding of method is)

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 21/09/2026

Yeah, I work in a result-driven world enough of the time that I'd forgotten that a lot of people still want to be able to read and trust the actual code. And I'm very glad that's the case, cuz, I'm still working to make code that's cleaner and easier to understand. It's kinda my whole thing!

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

But this aide to understanding is not something that is headline publicly visible- except as shared as part of the reproducibility of publications, it human people work on their human sized collected data sets addressing and understanding their individual research problems.

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