After having been in the top 20 for about 3 years, statistical language R dropped out this month. This is quite surprising because the field of statistical programming is still booming, especially thanks to the popularity of data mining and artificial intelligence. It seems that there is a consolidation going on in the statistical programming market. Python has become the big winner. A possible reason for this is that statistical programming is finding its way from university to industry nowadays and Python is more accepted by the industry.
Not the least is R's memory constrained execution engine. In these days of Big Data and Machine Learning using same, R (sans extensions) doesn't add up. Add the fact that much of what goes on these days isn't statistics, just number crunching.
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