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…

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 …

Using Julia is like. touring a construction site. You can see a bunch of features being developed and not ready. Use python and it’s like a market. Well, I want a simple pygame-like interface where I can control the update rate of my game? Not so fast. Not so simple. Not ready. Dig into SDL? Oh, go…

[image] stevengj: That “culture” led to a PR two PRs to improve the randn documentation within hours of the complaint being raised … I think the preferred culture is one where our testing and interface frameworks can catch problems before someone complains rather than a culture where we rea…

Gamezero has the user define the update function, but not the game loop itself, which is problematic in a sense that YOU CAN’T FIND OR CONTROL how long it takes between updates!

I really like Julia, but I use Fortran more. I don’t need dynamic typing for scientific calculations. For example, I always know in advance which types to use in calculations and almost always in advance the dimension of vectors and matrices. Long first start compared to statically compiled languag…

Dependence on spaces: [1a -2], [1 a -2], [1 a-2] are all different things if you make a typo.

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

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

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