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Vapour: A typed superset of the R programming language
Write more robust R code
Vapour is extremely young, the syntax might change, things will break, expect bugs. A language that transpiles to R means we can leverage the existing R body of work but improve things in some places by having the syntax change faster than the underlying language, akin to the various ECMAScript for JavaScript. Vapour can check for flagrant problems in the code at the time your write it, letting you fix them before they reach your users or even your unit tests.
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