Comment by levocardia

Not really, because honestly a lot of us who came into programming via research never learned typed languages or unit tests or any of those best practices - we were just hacking around in MATLAB, R, or Python from the start. What I really need is a seamless and easy way to run statistical models that can only be fit in R, but from Python or Node. There are several categories of statistical modeling where R completely blows python out of the water, and it's incredibly wasteful (and error-prone) to try to re-implement these yourself in Python.