This is a rather speculative post about Julia being used for building systems from scratch, as an alternative to ‘the C way’. Recently i spent some time learning Rust, as it infers it can be systems programming ‘for all’. But actually, like Dlang, its another reformation of the C way. People will s…

[image] kodintent: I assert that there isnt enough systems programmers, and this is holding back the world - because learning the C way turns most people away. This also applies to Rust. i think that because of the C way, we still have the outdated limited duopoly of Unix and windows. I think it…

[image] kodintent: I know Julia isnt trying to be that language, but could it be? Is it a reasonable candidate? Is it too high level? Or is the higher the level the better? For me this question should be rephrased “What language for writing OS we need?” and this is rather question to OS commu…

I think these sort of questions crop up in large part because of the narrative that Julia is the one language to replace them all, but it’s important to remember that the “two language problem” exists in the context of scientific computing, or more broadly wherever both high performance and expressi…

[image] Benny: I think these sort of questions crop up in large part because of the narrative that Julia is the one language to replace them all, but it’s important to remember that the “two language problem” exists in the context of scientific computing, or more broadly wherever both high perfo…

The two-languages problem that Julia attempts to solve is not having to use different languages to do different things, but having to rewrite in another language the code that you drafted to solve a given problem, because the original code (probably made in a high level, dynamic language to facilita…

Nope! Julia is wonderful because it composes so well. I use it for about 90% of my work these days. However, safe it isn’t. It is sometimes unpredictable because two packages interact in ways that neither packages authors anticipated. Plus Julia uses a prodigious amount of memory. Rust, on the…

(I’m not a software engineer, so pardon the novice question.) Is there a standard definition of what is and isn’t included in the scope of the term “systems language”? I see this term used a lot (on Hacker News) to tout languages like Rust and Nim, but it seems to mean different things to different …

We actually do have a dialect of Julia forming termed “unsafe” Julia where you might be able to more easily do systems level or embedded programming. For example, see [image] GitHub - brenhinkeller/StaticTools.jl: Enabling StaticCompiler.jl-based... Enabling StaticCompiler.jl-based comp…

Should Julia be a systems language?

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KZiemian July 27, 2022, 9:29am 4

Of course, you probably can find person that writes OS in Julia. But in every language community you kind find such super skilled person, that like extreme sports and this didn’t change OS landscape a bit.

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Should Julia be a systems language?

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