In response to [image] State of the Debugger General Usage Hi there, I just wanted to ask about the state of the debugger in Julia. I am coming from Matlab and the debugger there is quite important for me to see where something is going wrong. For example, using NLsolve …

An update, since apparently some people are gatekeeping Julia adoption on the completion of these compiler work items: these items are all complete as envisioned at the time this was posted (and have been for a while). Additional details follow. [image] StefanKarpinski: Correctness: finding an…

Thanks for laying it out. One thing I would like to ask though is, how can I help? I don’t have the time to really be a core contributor there (my efforts are probably best kept concentrated in DiffEq), but there’s gotta be something I can do? Fixing compile times is quite important to me so I would…

Not sure whether this is a valid way of accomplishing more compiler projects, but I find the barrier to entry for the compiler somewhat higher than for Base. This is because the data structures and source for Base are pretty apparent, well-documented and you can always play around in the REPL. In c…

Thanks for this writeup. There is something I feel could belong to this list: more detailed documentation on what the compiler is expected to optimize, and better tools for inspecting cases it didn’t. I often run into cases where I wonder if a particular optimization or type inference didn’t happen…

[image] tim.holy: It may be part of the compiler-time latency “caching more things” and “PackageCompiler,” but I would agree that “getting Julia to the point where it generates great .so files that can be used by other languages” would likely have a positive impact on Julia adoption. I agree …

[image] tim.holy: It may be part of the compiler-time latency “caching more things” and “PackageCompiler,” but I would agree that “getting Julia to the point where it generates great .so files that can be used by other languages” would likely have a positive impact on Julia adoption. I can’t …

I hear what you’re saying about multithreading, but threads have a bit of a bad reputation as tools of parallel computation (which I say from the position of someone who has used threads quite a bit, and successfully, even if I say so myself). What I wonder about is the support of the other impleme…

I’d like also ask if the topic PackageCompiler will focus also on reducing the number of required dependencies - not linking libraries that are never called in the code, and full AOT with disabling JIT-runtime? This would support the use-case where a scientist develops the “bussiness-logic” dynamic …

update Cxx.jl is very important, there are many repositories that rely on it.

[image] zsz00: update Cxx.jl is very important, there are many repositories that rely on it. Just noticed that there seems to be a new commit from Keno himself. Very exciting! It would be really nice if more people get involved so that we are not relying on one very busy guy for absolutely …

Agreed. @zsz00 and others who mentioned Cxx, checking out the branch and doing obvious fixes for test failures might earn brownie points for showing you care enough to help out. While Cxx surely has a lot of difficult-to-update components, many packages require a certain amount of annoying but fairl…

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