My two cents are that currently, Julia is not ready for these real, large production projects. If you’re going to start one from scratch, then debugger might not be the biggest problem, the ecosystem is. For now, Julia ecosystem is still lack of(relative to MATLAB/Python) actively maintained “wheel” projects, especially for general purpose programming.
My background is to use Julia for day-to-day R&D work and use C/C++ for production projects. Well, indeed I suffers from the so-called two-language problem, but for historical reasons, it’s not possible to switch the core language of a real, large C/C++/C# project to any other language. However, calling C from Julia is more concise and convenient than MATLAB/Python and we also have wrapper generator projects like CxxWrap and Clang which to some degree mitigate this problem.
BTW, personally, I won’t recommend any MATLAB/Python users to switch to Julia if they love to use debuggers(I tried before, never lead to a happy end).
I’m thinking of using Julia as a user-supplied external script in C++ code, which can have many advantages.
Do I need a complete Julia installation on production computers for this?
I’ve unlisted this thread since the subject has already been discussed extensively and this thread doesn’t seem to be adding anything substantive. Frankly, unless you’ve got the expertise to build a debugger yourself or a quarter million dollars to fund doing so, saying that you want one contributes nothing.
