At our May 2023 meetup, Henrik Bengtsson, author of the future R package talked about the futureverse. How the future package came to be, what problems it solves, and what the future of the future looks like.
The future framework makes it easy to parallelize existing R code - often with only a minor change of code. The goal is to lower the barriers so that anyone can safely speed up their existing R code in a worry-free manner.