Hey folks! There was a pretty good critical article written about Julia recently called “Why I no longer recommend Julia” by Yuri Vishnevsky There is an ongoing discussion about the article that has largely been constructive on Slack. Hoping to capture some of these thoughts here to provide actio…

Students who work with me on their PhDs have no choice: I use Julia, and the collaboration will be mediated by Julia (and the body of work already implemented in Julia). If they wish to use other software for anything else, of course they are free to do whatever they want.

Having someone to provide support is extremely valuable when learning something new, especially a human who’s nearby. The Julia discussion forums are also very good in helping. You might not get good answers to all of your questions, but reasonable questions should work fine. This is very different…

[image] Bruno_Amorim: By students, I meant students I supervise (BSc final project, MSc, PhD), not students I teach classes. This definitely changes my perspective, and it sounds to me like you’re doing it right. Carry on :smile:

[image] Bruno_Amorim: I have been facing a problem when trying to convince students to use Julia. In a class I taught, I told the students about the advantages of Julia, and then let them choose their language of preference for their first assignment, noting that I would be able to provide be…

[image] Bruno_Amorim: Should the student use ARPACK.jl, ArnoldiMethod.jl or KrylovKit.jl? What if we want inner eigenvalues? Well ARPACK.jl has shift-and-inverse but ARPACK.jl is also very fragile and prone to throw cryptic error messages. So ArnoldiMethod.jl or KrylovKit.jl it is. Except those …

[image] Bruno_Amorim: I don’t try to brainwash students into using Julia. I was not implying that you were doing that. [image] Bruno_Amorim: Why? Simple: to increase the number of Julia users. When thinking about this, I always try to imagine how I would relate to someone trying to co…

[image] martin.d.maas: As for Julia vs Numba, you can check out my blog post . Not only there is a performance penalty in numba, you also lose a good deal of the high-level features available in Python. Finally, there is no numba-specific package system, so if you need somewhat efficient code yo…

[image] Tamas_Papp: Julia is an extremely powerful programming language, but at the same time it requires quite a bit of investment to reap its benefits. I am not sure I agree with that. For-loops are one of the simplest things you can do and in Julia they are fast. You don’t need any effort …

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patrick June 16, 2022, 3:11am 241

I created a thread for the standardization discussion (in educational settings) here.

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