What don't you like about Julia for "serious work"?

[Sukera]

@filchristou

What discussion? Any link ?

They’re probably referring to this one:

Output distribution of rand(Float32) and rand(Float64), thread 2

A recent hackernews post lead me to necro https://discourse.julialang.org/t/output-distribution-of-rand/12192. If we want to reopen that can, I think a new thread is in order. Summary rand(), and much more acutely rand(Float32) generate a uniformly distributed random floating point number in the unit interval. In actuality, these functions generate a uniformly distributed fixed-point number in the unit interval, and convert it to floating point. This means that the output distribution close to …