Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (2019)
The popularity of R amazes me. I took a one-week class in R and left with a vow to avoid it at all costs. I have never seen a more confusing, hard to understand, inconsistent software product in my 30 years as an IT professional. It's apparently targeted at scientists and sociologists who are non-programmers. I have no idea how they manage to use it.