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…

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 …

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

@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…

Fortran compilers have improved a lot recently (I agree the adoption of Fortran 2008 by the compiler vendors was very slow and agonizing, partly due to the significant distributed parallelism component of F2008). Intel, Cray, and NAG compilers already fully support Fortran 2018, which is quite impre…

What is the advantage of Julia over Fortran?

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