I have been interested in Julia for some time and I wanted to use it in part of my work. I have been learning it with the help of resources such as the courses available at Julia Academy. Reading a post a few days ago made me wonder if at this time learning Julia is a wise thing to do or a waste of …

[image] mashgholam: What niche are you talking about? Where this niche is defined? As I understand it, Julia is a general-purpose programming language. One (niche) doesn’t exclude the other (general purposeness). Julia was started and is still advertised as a language for technical computing …

[image] Peter_Adelman: You ultimately need someone with a fairly strong comp sci background that understands when allocations happen This is the kind of thing that you can pass a life programming and not knowing that it exists if using other languages (saying for myself). And that is not in f…

[image] Peter_Adelman: If I was going to argue the bear case for Julia with the 2019 version of me, it would be that writing Julia efficiently enough to avoid having to rewrite your script in C for performance reasons requires a similar level of technical knowledge as coding it in C. You ultimat…

When discussing relative language popularity, please, please, please don’t use TIOBE as a source of anything meaningful — it’s methodology is so deeply flawed it means hardly anything. Instead, use rankings with reasonable methodologies like IEEE and PYPL . According to PYPL, which was the most pessi…

[image] mashgholam: What niche are you talking about? Where this niche is defined? As I understand it, Julia is a general-purpose programming language. Julia came into being as a solution to the “two language problem” in scientific computing, which is that the workflow of many (most?) scienti…

[image] bpr: Most languages are fairly general purpose. There have been webservers written in MATLAB. There have been webservers written in PostScript… :wink:

[image] mashgholam: Reading a post a few days ago made me wonder if at this time learning Julia is a wise thing to do or a waste of time. Trust me, I have been using Julia on and off for the past nine years and I have been there and overanalyzed these things to death. During this time I mostl…

The line from this article that resonates with me: “the yaks have largely been shorn and shaven, and you won’t have to bother with them” I really like Julia and use it as often as possible. As a fancy calculator. The fanciest best calculator I could hope for. I don’t use it as a programming lan…

[image] Orbots: Julia can’t solve the two language problem unless it puts some effort into integrating itself seamlessly into a multiple language software stack. And that is a contradiction in itself :slight_smile: (of course more interoperability is always welcome - but certainly Julia cann…

Julia: a post-mortem

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Henrique_Becker March 9, 2021, 6:25pm 33

I think this post explains it better than I could.

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Julia: a post-mortem

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