Good day. I’m new to “Julia” and maybe overly excited. Any language evolves, it either moves away from the original idea or pupates and dies. For example, “Python” was originally a zen language, and now it is a plug in every barrel. “C” was an engineering language and became the basis for many thin…

[image] mkitti: I’m not sure exactly what you are referring to with regard to modules. Depending on the complaint I usually either refer people to FromFile.jl or encourage them to use packages rather than just modules. Either way it seems that the Julia’s module system is quite flexible to accom…

[image] adienes: I believe we had a a quite extensive discussion about the challenges posed with the current module system and common/recommended usage on slack a few weeks back. Everytime I read another iteration of this discussion, my conclusion remains the same: FromFile.jl seems to work q…

[image] mkitti: FromFile.jl seems to work quite well it’s useful, but a big downside is that it’s not very compatible with VSCode autocomplete not going to result in breaking language? imo if anything at all is worth breaking changes it’s this one

[image] adienes: it’s useful, but a big downside is that it’s not very compatible with VSCode autocomplete That sounds like a problem with the VSCode extension. I’m not clear how that is at all related to introducing a breaking change into the language. If this is the actual problem, then I r…

[image] mkitti: I recommend focusing on that problem. it is hard to do that on package side without better integration into the language see: Improve static analysis compatibility opened 05:57PM - 12 Nov 22 UTC (UTC) …

It seems quite possible to add this to the julia-vscode extension. They just did something similar for Revise.jl: feat: improve followinclude to check ref julia-vscode:master ← julia-vscode:sp/better-followinclude …

[image] algunion: I would say Julia is already unattainable in many ways Interactive development of fast libraries with Revise.jl is unattainable in C++. A tiny change in a large codebase can be instantly picked up by Revise.jl, but in C++ you’ll need to re-build the project, which can take a…

I totally disagree as a researcher who wrote C++ programs and used Python as a glue language. It is a pain. I hate programming in C++. Julia enables me to write high-performance advanced algorithms in my field which with my knowledge of C++ should not be possible to do before. To me, standalone bina…

@panos.asproulis Interestign that you work in Computational Fluid Dynamics. What are your thoughts about the future of Julia in this field? At the moment, that field ahs the ‘biggie’ commercial codes like Fluent and Star-CCM+ Also big communities behind open source OpenFOAM and Code Saturne. Do y…

I would like to see Julia being used for the development of a big CFD (or FEM) code, particularly as a framework for an open-source project composed of several packages which implement various physical and numerical models used for flow simulations together with a “driver” main application which imp…

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mkitti October 22, 2023, 11:13pm 17

It seems quite possible to add this to the julia-vscode extension. They just did something similar for Revise.jl:

edit: I created a thread focusing on this.

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