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 have trouble remembering what exactly happened. Should have written this post half a year ago. But anyways, thanks for pointing the Pkg.offline option out.

Yes, it is how it looks like. I use my notebook with moderate brightness because high brightness tire my eye very fast (and I spend a lot of time in front of it), and I often prefer black backgrounds (I always chose the dark themes when possible) but I never had a reading problem like with this tone…

[image] Volker_Weissmann: I used Julia for a while and wrote a blog post about it: What do you think about this post? Out of curiosity: is that meant to be your ‘goodbye’ to Julia? Edit: or in other words: did you have at least some fun with it as I sometimes have?

[image] jar1: If you fail - fail loudly. Julia routinely ignores this guideline. What does this refer to? A bunch of smaller things, I don’t remember everything. One thing being that @includeonce does raise a second error if a bad file is included twice. Another thing is that dynamic typi…

[image] goerch: Out of curiosity: is that meant to be your ‘goodbye’ to Julia? Edit: or in other words: did you have at least some fun with it as I sometimes have? Fun: Not really, Rust owns my heart. But I might use it again If I find myself in a situation where Julia is useful. That bein…

This is a pretty good blog post. In my opinion, you hit on some sore points in Julia. You also mention some problems that are easily solvable, though. Real problems We don’t have good autogenerated docs, like cargo doc. It should be possible to create a program that reads Julia code, lists exporte…

I think you’re hitting on a real problem but I disagree with the diagnosis as a “silent failures” problem. [image] Volker_Weissmann: Another thing is this That looks like a loud failure with an unhelpful error message. As you rightly pointed out in another bullet-point above, this is a comm…

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Moved to Declare functions of type

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