I first tried Julia a couple of years ago. I LOVE the language, but I gave up. I tried it again a year ago. Better, but no debugger. I gave up. I could not possibly recommend it to my department without a debugger. Tried it again now. So close to giving up. Look, you have to solve the most b…

Having watched this thread unfold, I realize that I had conflated two things that I now perceive as somewhat distinct after seeing the dialog here – this community, as opposed to the for-profit Julia Computing. The Julia Pro website certainly seems to imply all the things I was expecting when I ins…

I’m glad you’re discovering that it can be a joy to work with now. I kind of hate that a lot of people’s experience with Julia probably starts with JuliaPro when I think you get a much better experience by just taking the time to learn what packages you need to get work done instead of having a some…

I also found the first impression of using Julia far from smooth. Typically a new user would just download JuliaPro which is very large. The default Atom editor feels very slow and the plotting is even slower. For new users, I highly recommend the combination of VSCode + Julia + Gaston to get a fee…

Maybe you should document your experience in a blog. Going from downloading Julia to having a smoother working environment is interesting for a lot of non-technical people. There are probably a lot of people like you out there, that get curious, find it frustrating and give up quickly, so a blog fro…

[image] Brad_Hines: Python just worked when I tried it. A colleague said “download this package” and that was all I had to do to start being productive. Until you try to do it cross-platform… tsfresh just refused to install on Windows for me…

[image] ExpandingMan: In recent years I’ve come to understand that there tends to be a big difference in attitude from people who are expecting a “product”, and those who are simply looking for a programming language. This is the image I can find that best summarises it. Basically, we early a…

[image] xiaodai: jumping into Julia when it’s only ready for Early Adopters (or Innovators). I am not sure I agree with this. I think at this point Julia is robust enough for production, and has been since v1.1. It was for early adopters around v0.5. While feedback from frustrated individual…

Talking about general usability “How to install in a corporate environment?” I’m sitting here with the company laptop (Win10) in our office network - which is firewalled and proxied (for HTTP flavors) to the outside world (and that’s a ‘normal’ setup, for some customer projects we have systems that…

Get it together, guys!

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StefanKarpinski August 22, 2019, 9:58pm 67

Or a detailed post like this one: Package Manager Documentation. Doesn’t need to be so detailed, but the first time experience is helpful.

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