Features to automate cross-language access and calculations in SQL, Python and R programming have been added. Libraries added to R programming permit SQL queries and Python syntax without changing ...

Harnham said that Python was now the top programming language used in data science, "with R falling firmly into second place." The remaining top-five data science technologies were SQL, AWS and Spark.

Python could soon be the most popular programming language, battling it out for top spot with JavaScript, Java and C, depending on which language ranking you look at.

In fact, you’re cautioned not to install the usual VS Code extensions for R and Python in Positron, since the IDE already comes with that functionality built-in.