Hi. I’m a relatively new member of the community, and I really only started to dig into Julia in the past few months. I had poked at it a few years ago because I found the initial announcement so intriguing. Here’s a list of things I like in programming: Lisp and metaprogramming Haskell and awesom…

@jameson or @Keno Does Julia’s static compilation size reflect a fundamental limitation of Julia’s design or current compiler (ie GC and allocating code style in base or MD with generic code)?. Or can it be improved without a an extensive overhaul of the language or code? Perhaps by restricti…

[image] non-Jedi: a hefty 200 MiB I think this is considered insignificant these days on modern desktops/laptops. [image] non-Jedi: Julia could depend on an unpatched LLVM Effectively, you are suggesting substituting hardware (storage space), which is super-cheap, with developer effor…

Multiply 45.4 MiB (for LLVM) by the number of Julia users, and that’s closer to the number you can compare to the cost of developer effort if you want to go down that road. The reality is that most of the patches Julia carries for LLVM are bugs in LLVM, so the real total utility of upstreaming them …

I think this is considered insignificant these days on modern desktops/laptops. strong statement. I have to say that @non-Jedi brings up some important points why Julia is currently not yet a drop-in replacement for a variety of tasks. This does not mean that Julia is not a very nice general purp…

[image] non-Jedi: Specifically, because Julia carries so many patches of its dependencies, it doesn’t play nice with linking against dependencies provided by a distribution, especially when it comes to LLVM. Julia devs have done a good job in the past of pushing LLVM patches upstream, but it…

[image] StefanKarpinski: There absolutely is. Your default DEPOT_PATH will include something like /usr/share/julia and /usr/local/share/julia . These are where shared installations should go. Any packages installed there with the right permissions will be usable by any user with those depots in …

[image] non-Jedi: As for why my ~/.julia is so large, after running ]gc , it’s still 2.5 GiB: !!! After running ]gc my usage went from 25GB to a svelte 24GB. I assumed everyone’s .julia tree was huge. That includes 12GB for Julia 0.6, which I still use a bit (Julia 0.6, 0.7, to find replacem…

I’ve been doing a ton of data crunching with heavy emphasis on reading and parsing of text files which are 10s of MBytes. I even finally got around to using DataFrames for the first time (yes - it’s great). Julia is working really well for my application. edit: grammar and spelling is hard…

I propose to think about these clever words before doing blog post: [image] List of working packages on v. 1.0 New to Julia Just to adjust expectations: waiting an extra month or six would not have made Julia polished in the sense Matlab/R/Stata/… is. The package ecosyste…

Mine has “only” 1.7Gb and I care to manually clean many of the source files left over by the installers. GR behaves nicely and removes all non-needed packaged files after install but many other do not do it. Disk space is not negligible as some pretend. Try to work on a laptop with a SSD and see.

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Not only for technical computing: changing the narrative around the usecase for Julia

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