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] StefanKarpinski: Yet nobody is wringing their hands over Go’s failure or lack of growth. I think that Go development atmosphere is more professional so there is trust in their potential in handling the barriers they’re faced. sorry for my english

[image] haberdashPI: are you saying that text is evidence of using those measures as part of their index No [image] haberdashPI: do you mean that—because they believe those usage patterns are typical—it leaves you skeptical of the index itself? Exactly, In addition, for example, I do …

Got it: if I get it, you question their judgment about how to design the metric because they don’t seem to really understand all use cases for each language in the index. (And so maybe they’re missing something in the design of the metric). I’m not sure that’s the standard I would use to judge a met…

[image] lungben: I think the difference here is that very few people make Python libraries to be called from other programming languages. This would not be very efficient due to Python’s performance limitations. For Julia, however, this would be a viable use case. You don’t need fully static …

Hmm. I am aware of at least one horror story installing on Windows. But on “supported” platforms it may be a different story. However, compared with Julia itself the installation is definitely fiddly.

[image] paulmelis: in what ways does Julia lack integration with other software/OS? And in what way is that situation better with other languages? For myself, compiling a shared library (.so) for Linux is brittle and unsupported. I did have this ( sort of ) working with older versions of jul…

[image] stevengj: But it’s not clear to me that this is really required — people care about having something be easy to link and call, and care about it being fast, but don’t typically care (or understand) whether a JIT is hidden underneath. This generalization applies to a narrow subset of s…

I agree. I’d really like a Julia static compiler that I could just point at a pile of code and have it do a whole program optimization like MLton . I realize that’s not the workflow that Julia targets, but I’m greedy, I’d like it in addition to the JIT compiler, to deploy static binaries.

We can have a discussion about the technical points, but I think it will be easy to get consensus about the health and quality of Julia’s community.

Julia: a post-mortem

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