Thanks @aplavin for the question.
I think the API will feel natural to folks coming from R’s tidyverse ecosystem, but there’s nothing in the API that is specific to R per se. There are implementations of the tidyverse API in Python (eg, Ibis, tidypolars, siuba, and others) that are also fairly nice to use. Even polars and pandas borrow some of these concepts in Python.
At this point, I’m mostly a Julia-first user. This is my invitation for other Julia users who have never used R to take a look at Tidier.jl.