r-source VS neovim

If you want to go deeper, reading the R Internals manual is a good place to start. And then you could even download the source from github.com/wch/r-source and poke around....

Fun fact, the R official contribution guide uses /* … */ for single line C comments as the standard (https://github.com/wch/r-source/wiki/Contributing)

Looks like it was removed December 2021.. Typical CRAN beaviour to not inform package maintainers of this change ¯/_(ツ)_/¯

I wouldn't say that for loops are outdated, per se. As others have noted, vectorized functions in R are typically much faster than writing a standard for loop, but it's important to note that these functions are at their core for loops written in a compiled language like C. For example, the function lapply() used to apply a function to each element of a list in R is actually a wrapper for a function with a loop written in C. But don't take my word for it! Check out some of the underlying source code written in C for the apply() family of functions here.

Hmmm? Found R's grammar in below a minute: https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/trunk/src/main/gram.y

As a software engineer, choosing and understanding your text editor is important part of your work, as it impacts your productivity and workflow efficiency. It's like choosing the perfect tool for any trade - you need to know what tool to use and how to use it effectively if you want to excel. For me, I use Neovim as my editor and I have been using it for a little over a year now.

This got me thinking about my recent pivot, my switch to Neovim by way of LazyVim to write most of my code, and using tmux to keep terminal states alive after closing a session.

Neovim: Make sure you have Neovim installed on your system. You can check the official website for installation instructions: https://neovim.io/ Git: We'll be using Git to clone the LazyVim starter pack. If you don't have Git, you can download it from https://git-scm.com/downloads

There are several ways to install Neovim. This wiki provides several guidelines on how to install Neovim.

All these thoughts I've shared, I would have them on occasion - but ever since I switched to Linux and Neovim, my curiosity has been through the roof. Switching over to Neovim and Linux was a not so fun weekend of configuration and spending half a day getting my work's local dev environment running on my new OS (which no one has tested development on). But I now have a deeper understanding of the tools I use, and have a text editor configured to be the most optimal for the way I want to use it.