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I've been > scientific computing for quite some time, and I've the value of a REPL steadily in decline: what's far more useful is a tested code snippet or fun

I've been > scientific computing for quite some time, and I've the value of a REPL steadily in decline: what's far more useful is a tested code snippet or function & a debugger, occasionally. Also, if a scientific stack were available in Go, I'd jump on it, because deploying Go is so much simpler than Python. Python's deployment story for scientific software often starts with either )a) create the perfect storm of dependency versions or (b) use Anaconda. Even MATLAB is way better in this regard.

vegabook 10y ago
In fairness, "use Anaconda" usually nullifies this dependency / deployment problem completely.
NegatioN 10y ago
The "perfect storm of dependency versions" is a problem in Go as well though?
- eikenberry 10y ago
  Not in practice. The vendoring solution that they are standardizing on makes versioning issues very manageable.
  - NegatioN 10y ago
    Which solution is this? Do you have any links or more information about that spesifically?
    - MoOmer 10y ago
      https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools
    - deleted 10y ago
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sbinet 10y ago
out of interest, what do you find lacking in https://github.com/gonum https://github.com/gonum offering as a scientific stack?