It’s a nice and positive presentation of the language, although superficial compered to the others they covered: [image] Emerging Programming Languages C++, Java, Python, and other established programming languages may yet be with us for a long time, but our current software development …

Julia is an enormous language You reckon this is true? It seems kind medium-sized to me–though I have to admit, the apparent eagerness of the core devs to add syntax is the only significant source of trepidation I have about the language. I don’t feel like it’s enormous yet, but it does seem like…

[image] ninjaaron: apparent eagerness of the core devs to add syntax I am not quite sure what you mean here, can you give a few examples? I feel kind of the opposite: extra syntax is usually added after careful consideration. Eg #24990 .

[image] ninjaaron: You reckon this is true? It seems kind medium-sized to me–though I have to admit, the apparent eagerness of the core devs to add syntax is the only significant source of trepidation I have about the language. I don’t feel like it’s enormous yet, but it does seem like it could …

It is possible that I understand syntax in the narrow technical sense (syntax is what the parser eats). For me Tridiagonal, mul!, and * are not syntax; @. is. :wink:

I understand * and \ as syntax, but not the rest, they are just names. Actually, even those are just operators, not sure if they count as syntax. The @ itself is syntax.

The goal of this report seems ambitious but IMO it does not have enough details for any language. I think it needs to go just a little bit deeper to be useful. I’m pleased to see Julia gets covered though.

[image] Tamas_Papp: I am not quite sure what you mean here, can you give a few examples? I feel kind of the opposite: extra syntax is usually added after careful consideration. Eg #24990 . Well, it’s encouraging to see that they are being careful about it. It would be more encouraging to see …

[image] ninjaaron: Yes, and that’s the latest one I’ve discovered. Another related one which no one has been able to explain to me is the difference between Array{T,1} where T and Array{T,1} where {T} . If they are the same, why are they both supported? (I don’t know if they are the same, but no…

[image] ninjaaron: but the for x=xs definitely qualifies as additional syntax I do feel the same. [image] ninjaaron: import vs. using I think the difference is clear once you know it: using M if you want all symbols exported from M import M if you only want M to be in your namespace …

Julia included in Oreilly's "Emerging Programming Languages" report (June 2019)

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Probably one example at I wrote a guide about Object Orientation and Polymorphism in Julia. opinions wanted! - #48 by ninjaaron

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Julia included in Oreilly's "Emerging Programming Languages" report (June 2019)

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