Dear, I am a C / C ++ programmer and I maintain packages in the R language. I already program in C and R and teach about these languages at a University in Brazil. I know very little of Julia’s language. However, it seems to me that it has a great future. Often in R I need to import C / C ++ and C…

[image] dfdx: As far as I remember, GPL covers any derived work including rewriting an algorithm to a different language. To clarify this point: copyright law covers only source code – copyright does not and can not apply to the underlying mathematical idea. Math cannot be copyrighted. Litera…

[image] pedro.rafae: I am a PhD in statistics and I think of studying the language to transcribe R language packs into the Julia language. What do you think about that? I’ll add that this depends on what do you mean by transcribe. If you mean something automatic then it’s in general impossibl…

Surely it cannot be illegal to transcribe code? You mean that you cannot release transcribed code under just any licence? Edit: or exploit it commercially and so on…

[image] yuyichao: The reason julia is fast is not because it has a good compiler, in fact we have a pretty terrible one The nice thing about that statement, is that a lot can be done after 1.0 to greatly improve the performance of the parsing, lowering, and JITting code, and to make the compi…

There are many R language users who use the betareg package, for example. I wish they could enjoy the Julia language and that it had functions to work with the Beta Regression Model. I’m not saying I want to put useless features of R on Julia, that would be dumb of me. What I mean is to place math…

I’m starting to converge for the idea of waiting for the language to mature a little. Maybe hopefully version 1.0 will be released to venture out with a little more peace of mind.

I see a lot of statisticians who program a lot in C and R by no using Julia because apart from programming for pleasure they need statistical methodologies to produce their papers and often are not willing to implement everything from scratch. Here in Brazil a programming language called Lua was pr…

I worry about this since there are initiatives to reimplementation of the base R by other companies that already use the R language for their analysis of data such as Microsoft, Google, Amazom, Oracle, Facebook, etc. Link: Home

To be more clear, making it possible to implement a useful R transpiler is extremely unlikely be be part of julia 1.0 or even 2.0, if ever. The reason is that our compiler is optimized for julia code. The semantic requirement of R and the R code that depends on these features are “bad code” by this …

[image] pedro.rafae: I wish they could enjoy the Julia language and that it had functions to work with the Beta Regression Model. While such altruistic motives are laudable, in the long (or not so long) run they usually lead to abandonned packages. Write something that you would use. If, for…

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