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…

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.

[image] Aexetan: Long first start compared to statically compiled languages. I would usually compare this to compilation time in statically compiled languages, but I suppose it depends what we are comparing. [image] Aexetan: I would be happy if there was a completely “statically typed” v…

Compiling a static language program takes time too.

The only issue that inconveniences me significantly is the inability to redefine structs (eg with Revise.jl). Yes, I am aware that solving this is a large undertaking and there is work in progress, and compared to how great Julia is, effectively I am complaining about the in-flight meal options on …

[image] Tamas_Papp: compared to how great Julia is, effectively I am complaining about the in-flight meal options on a space rocket that I got for free and it is getting faster day by day thanks to the efforts of others You can have your meal on the rocket, If you carry it in your pocket. …

But the whole point is exactly how to avoid re-run the whole script when structs are redefined…

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joa-quim April 19, 2024, 6:31pm 201

The situation is even worst than I described here.

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