I am from Fortran (high performance modern Fortran) to Julia. May I just straightforwardly ask a question to you guys, so, What is the advantage of Julia over Fortran? I mean, modern Fortran seems is not that bad, and the performance is not very bad either. In many ways the code may even look kin…

[image] jzr: I’m curious what is the use case for a compiled Fortran program to be small . Well, if each package takes 100mb and suppose we ship 100 packages in a Linux distro, that is ~10gb. My hard drive has 250gb, and my local Julia packages are taking 30gb already (I need to clean up). P…

[image] jzr: I’m curious what is the use case for a compiled Fortran program to be small . I Imagine writing some code to do analysis of network performance on an embedded router so that the router can auto-tune its queue management software so that people will not complain about buffering an…

Do people write embedded programs in Fortran?

I assume the answer is yes. I bet a bunch of space satellite stuff is still Fortran for example. Who knows. The point is it’s not impossible.

A better analogy in my opinion would be this one, from a talk I gave about Julia a few months ago. Say you want a toy truck. The Python/R solution is to look for the appropriate package–like buying a Playmobil truck. It comes pre-manufactured, well-engineered and tested, and does 95% of what you …

@EIOceanografo, that is a really really cool presentation you gave there. Would It be okay to use them while crediting you? Thanks for the awesome slides!

[image] gbaraldi: I think what happens is that people have some development only packages i.e BenchmarkTools Revise OhMyREPL etc, and it would be a bit annoying, but I dunno. Yes, that’s also the rationale given in the documentation . I think it’s the wrong default: we should ensure reproducib…

[image] dlakelan: I bet a bunch of space satellite stuff is still Fortran for example. None that I know off. Most of it is C and C++ but there might also be some hardware running Forth still flying around. There is a lot of Fortran in the ground systems, though. Especially in orbital dynamics…

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giordano August 10, 2021, 10:28pm 102

I’m going to ~~steal~~ use this awesome example crediting you in my next talk about julia

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