One of my advisors is considering transitioning towards Julia from a traditional HPC background using C++ and Python. After a couple days playing around, he seems quite impressed by the flexibility of Julia’s type system. But, he hasn’t done any “serious numerical work” (his words), and he is wonder…

[image] TheLateKronos: I just wanted to express this view, as I feel that the “this update broke my code and that is bad” view is overrepresented on forums like this. Maybe we dont communicate enough on the pinning possibilities. Maybe the most read tutorials could show-case this possibility,…

What are the odds of adding mandatory declaring of variables before use to the Julia syntax in v2.0? :slightly_smiling_face: Or is there a way to find a typo in a variable- or field name in any other way than having 100% code coverage in the tests?

[image] DOT: Or is there a way to find a typo in a variable- or field name in any other way than having 100% code coverage in the tests? Use JET.jl.

After trying out JET.jl thoroughly in a larger project, I find that it doesn’t really help much. I still find a lot of “not found” errors only by covering the specific code (i.e., JET.jl missed them) that in C/C++ would have lighted up while I type… :disappointed:

Hmm, maybe you can try CodeSpell for VSCode (I think that’s what it’s called) or some other spell checker? I think @Lilith just added one to Julia’s CI.

distributing stand-alone applications. a culture of terrible documentation. The recent randn() discussion was a good example.

[image] mpeters2: The recent randn() discussion was a good example. What discussion? Any link ?

[image] filchristou: What discussion? Any link ? They’re probably referring to this one: [image] Output distribution of rand(Float32) and rand(Float64), thread 2 Internals & Design A recent hackernews post lead me to necro https://discourse.julialang.or…

Perhaps How do we Julians win big when the situation is so unfair? - #63 by sylvaticus , given that this was about documenting randn

[image] mpeters2: a culture of terrible documentation. The recent randn() discussion was a good example. That “culture” led to a PR two PRs to improve the randn documentation within hours of the complaint being raised …

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