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Pretty Good Hat

I’m quite interested in Positron, the new data science-focused IDE from Posit, built on the open source VS Code foundation. It’s certainly a pitch to get more Python/VS Code-focused developers into the Posit ecosystem, though I also wonder if those users’ preferences aren’t basically already baked; Positron is going to have to be clearly differentiated for Python/VS Code developers to care, and that will be an interesting path to see take shape. To be clear, I hope it does! For my own uses, I’m eager to see Positron fully support working with R (my own experimentation: ongoing!) and bring more ready-to-use affordances and updated UI to the R experience.