We all cheer when 10 lines of Julia beat 1000 lines of something else with twice the performance, or when one Julian beats 100 people, but there is an endless number of people and an endless amount of funding in Python/C++/etc. You will find lots of work in Python or other languages but not in Julia…

No, I didn’t submit a bug report, because I was trying to finish a project. Some people need to just use a programming language, and don’t have time to be part of the effort to create one. The thing is that JET.jl is an amazing piece of software: it must be fiendishly difficult to catch the mistake…

That’s all true. One thing I changed when moving from Fortran to Julia is that I write much smaller functions. That’s a good thing, I guess, but also an imposition given the flexibility of the language.

I don’t think there is anything “unfair” about the situation, it’s just that other languages have spent more time integrating with external libraries. Unless there is an issue I have yet to encounter, I didn’t see anything preventing work to be done in Rust, with its toolset and package system, and…

[image] sylvaticus: but what a “enlarged audience” could care is that transpose you can use only for numbers If transpose were only for numbers, there wouldn’t be any point to making it recursive.

yes, sorry, numbers and arrays of numbers, but not strings or general types…

speaking of “searchability” … an even less fancy huge help would be to use literally any other algorithm than whatever Documenter currently uses to search docs. I would at this point rather do ctrl-F on raw html than use the built-in search functionality I often find myself cloning repos locally j…

[image] Tarny_GG_Channie: but there is an endless number of people and an endless amount of funding in Python/C++/etc. When @mit.edelman and @jeff.bezanson told me back in 2011 that they were developing a new programming language, my initial reaction was “You’re doomed.” New programming lang…

Hah, yes, open-ended topics like these are tough. They can bring out some really interesting discussions (like the above), but everyone takes things in different directions (like the above) and discourse’s model here just isn’t great at handling that. At best, us mods split out lots of sub-threads,…

Not a Julia wins big situation, but I’ve tried my own way of trying to make Julia win small. Something that I used to do back in undergrad was try to solve homework problems with Julia libraries. If I found the Julia ecosystem to be incomplete/inefficient to solve undergrad curriculum I always thou…

[image] adienes: speaking of “searchability Isn’t it possible to train a GPT on the Julia manual and package register, then give it some context on which packages you have installed. That ought to give decent search results, shouldn’t it?

How do we Julians win big when the situation is so unfair?

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How do we Julians win big when the situation is so unfair?

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