In that long “What can we do to make Julia grow fast” thread , @John_Hearns suggests that what Julia really needs is a cuddly animal. (I’m not sure I totally agree with him but it’s an interesting idea to pursue… :slight_smile: The trouble is that, like good names, so many of the good ideas have alr…

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Description: [image] Meet Mantissa – a contender with striking properties! :wink: [True Facts About The Mantis Shrimp]

While speed is the obvious Julia selling point, and the thing people like to brag about, I would argue that Julia’s real structural advantage is multiple dispatch. If we are looking for a mascot in the animal kingdom, that seems more relevant than raw speed alone. So let me once again nominate the…

There’s a YouTube channel called Clint’s Reptiles from zoologist Clint Laidlaw, that points out a lot of things that “animal facts” articles and videos get subtly (or not so subtly) wrong, I’ve been following him for a little while. So I checked to see if he had a video on Mantis Shrimps, and it tur…

It is fortunate not to have an animal for Julia.

[image] huang_min: It is fortunate not to have an animal for Julia. Sure. I, for one, am perfectly happy that Julia just has some balls. On the other hand, quite a few languages have unofficial animals or mascots. “Mantissa” the mantis shrimp would actually fit Julia rather well: lightning-…

I agree that multiple dispatch is central to Julia, but I think picking a mascot that encodes a single language feature is the wrong frame. A mascot is a visual identity asset. It has to read at small size, work on a sticker, a conference badge, an enterprise docs page, and on a hoodie/hat/merch. I…

[image] Meet Mantissa – a contender with striking properties! :wink: [True Facts About The Mantis Shrimp]

I always thought of Julia as being a cat: clean, elegant, intelligent, looks soft and fluffy on the outside, independent and universally loved by nerds. But if you get too close you might get scratched. And Python is more like a golden retriever: eager, friendly, shows up everywhere, occasionally dr…

Didn’t see any O’Reilly book use the dodo :winking_face_with_tongue:. It may be bad karma but perhaps Julia can help de-extinct it. [dodo-julia]

[image] danvinci: So any candidate should pass a few basic tests: Another of these is “Does it look unique enough that people will naturally remember it?” I’m not attached to the mantis shrimp any of the other proposals specifically, but when I imagine myself seeing the hummingbird mascot at…

An animal for Julia?

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Meet Mantissa – a contender with striking properties!

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