In a recent conversation with a friend he asked me why I spend so much time on Julia ecosystem. He generally liked the language and agreed it’s an excellent tool for many technical tasks, but he expressed doubts that Julia - given its current state and the state of other languages like Python - is t…

Totally agree! Yet this post’s goal is not just to reiterate that we are doing fine, but to share the awesome projects out there. For example, being interested in bioinformatics, I was amazed at how clean and easy-to-use projects in BioJulia are (though it’s hard for me to compare it to Biopython ). …

I mostly do bioinformatics. The standard in the field is to pipe together a bunch of heterogenous tools, which works fine for simple tasks but can quickly become a mess. There’s also a big divide between tool developers (often written in C/C++ & Java) and users. Julia is a good alternative because …

[image] xiaodai: ppl who use Chrome or Firefox tend to have higher levels of productivity I thought this was examples of defaults, and was really surprised, until I saw you meant in contrast to IE. I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who used IE.

[image] jonathanBieler: The standard in the field is to pipe together a bunch of heterogenous tools, which works fine for simple tasks but can quickly become a mess. I’ve heard this sentiment several times recently, especially in the context of the low salaries of software engineers in the fi…

I work with machine learning in medical imaging. I frequently speed up data processing tasks substantially by converting them from Python to Julia. Partially this is because Julia is simply faster and partially because it’s much easier to optimize the code in Julia. Some of those optimizations would…

There are many responses here: [image] Julia - what interesting things are you doing? Community the Julia language site has some nice whitepapers on projects which use Julia. However we are seeing more people ask for help here - which is a great thing! I would like to h…

[image] gustaphe: I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who used IE. u might be too young or have not worked in a lockdown (i.e. not allowed to install software/apps) corporate environment in the last 10 years.

Yeah I don’t think I’d take a job in such an environment.

[image] gustaphe: I don’t think I’d take a job in such an environment. it’s easier if u have choices and don’t jump at the first big company role thrown ur way… yeah. i wish everyone’s in ur position though…

A side-step, but why is the package Yötä? It’s Finnish and means ’night’, as in ’good night!’.

What do you work on? Why is it important?

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Why Julia - A Manifesto Community	38	5763	December 7, 2023
Results regarding Julia from HackerRank developer skills report Community	26	3462	January 28, 2018
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How do we Julians win big when the situation is so unfair? Community	100	6197	November 22, 2023
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