Statistical programming language R has fallen off Tiobe index's list of the 20 most popular languages, having spent three years in the top tier. Tiobe now places R in 21st position and suggests ...

Regardless of the reasons, R is still on track to become TIOBE’s programming language of 2020, an accolade bestowed to the language that earns the highest rise in ratings over the course of a year.

"Julia's CSV.jl is 1.5 to 5 times faster than Pandas even on a single core; with multithreading enabled, it is as fast or faster than R's read_csv," he notes.