In a similar spirit to the “why does it have to be in Rust” question, R already has a robust ecosystem of people doing research and writing packages for the physical sciences, even hydrology. What does writing a whole new system in a new language offer that can’t be achieved with existing software?

Changelog media is another good source to complement this rec. Longer form, as opposed to breaking news, conversations about many OSS related (and software development in general) topics. Some of their now defunct programs like Request For Commits were some of my favorites.

I feel productive just looking at this. Well done.

The reality is that virtually all widely used modern codebases contain at least some open source code (source).

At first I was like how bunch upon second thought, there’s a bit of addition by subtraction here.

Love a nice cool green theme! everforest?

Perhaps not in as much need as TIA, but I like the concept behind https://academictorrents.com/ and seed what I can