I used Julia for a while and wrote a blog post about it: What do you think about this post? My Experiences with Julia - Volker Weißmann I describe my experiences using the Julia programming language and highlight its problems of bad performance and bad documentation. I find Julia code …

I think your experience is entirely accurate - docs & error messages are the biggest problems julia has right now, but unfortunately I don’t see a lot of momentum happening in that direction. A lot of people seem to know that this is bad, but either willfully ignore it or efforts to make it better s…

Hello, It’s a nice write-up of your experience. I’m very sorry to hear you had a frustrating experience. I think it is quite typical of what new people face when they start using Julia. I’m not sure I understand all of your points, as my use is a bit different from yours. I’m not a big library …

The problem is that this short code will take longer to write, because dynamic typing, bad reference documentation makes writing and debugging Julia code extremely hard. I’d say this is a very opinioned claim. For me, Julia saves my life a lot in implementing numerical algorithms. The grammar is …

[image] Volker_Weissmann: What do you think about this post? It’s an interesting post, and useful. I do think the language indicates that it is written in frustration, and has some needlessly inflammatory phrases, such as saying Julia is not “a proper language”, and that it lacks a proper typ…

I wander why Fortran was not an alternative to you? I mostly agree with the post points, although the tradeoffs for me are different. As I follow more people using Julia I find that getting used to a confortable development workflow is one of the pain points. (I guess you used Revise, etc.).

[image] liuyxpp: I’d say this is a very opinioned claim. For me, Julia saves my life a lot in implementing numerical algorithms. The grammar is so similar and straightforward to most pseudo-codes in numerical publications that I can implement, e.g. an Anderson acceleration method exactly follows…

[image] lmiq: I wander why Fortran was not an alternative to you? I never used Fortran.

[image] Volker_Weissmann: What do you think about this post? It reads like a rant. Not sure for whom that sort of post should be useful. As a package maintainer I get very frustrated when I read such negative and non-constructive blog posts. In particular statements like “The Julia ecosystem …

Modern Fortran is definitely a nice option for numerical computing on the statically typed world.

[image] DNF: I do think the language indicates that it is written in frustration Actually no. It is written months after my time with Julia. [image] DNF: , and has some needlessly inflammatory phrases, such as saying Julia is not “a proper language”, and that it lacks a proper type syste…

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