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This was written 22 Apr 2016, still pretty good read.

by StreamBright 10y ago

coldtea 10y ago
Still? Because being merely 6 months is supposed to date a programming article?
- optimuspaul 10y ago
  It was ancient history in July. It's a fast paced word my friend.
- StreamBright 10y ago
  You are on HackerNews, the site name might suggest that you are getting news. news n(y)o͞oz/Submit noun newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events.
  - adrianN 10y ago
    From the guidelines: What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
- geodel 10y ago
  It depends. Specially if it has anything to do with Javascript related framework. In that world I think best practices and technologies change weekly.
- the_duke 10y ago
  It's called sarcasm, people.
- ellisv 10y ago
  I think the point was to note that this isn't a new article. Also Julia has had several bug fixes and a minor version bump (with some major changes) since the article was written.
- ChrisRackauckas 10y ago
  6 months is a long time ago in Julia land. Since then, the standard Julia install is a minor version higher which makes -O3 optimization standard, has . syntax for automatic fused broadcasts (simple loop fusing for MATLAB-style vectorization), anonymous functions are orders of magnitude faster, Base has been slimmed and many new organizations like JuliaMath and JuliaDiffEq have been developed with new packages to enhance performance for these kinds of things. In Julia you can program really fast so the language (written in Julia) and the package ecosystem evolves fast as well. Code from 6 months ago is recognizably different (at least right now).
  - coldtea 10y ago
    >months is a long time ago in Julia land. Regarding minutiae such as these maybe. But I've been following Julia on and off for close to 5 years, and it's mostly crickets even among "major" versions (e.g 0.2 to 0.3. to 0.4 etc). That said are little better/faster/picking up this year.

This was written 22 Apr 2016, still pretty good read.

coldtea 10y ago

Still? Because being merely 6 months is supposed to date a programming article?

optimuspaul 10y ago
It was ancient history in July. It's a fast paced word my friend.
StreamBright 10y ago
You are on HackerNews, the site name might suggest that you are getting news. news n(y)o͞oz/Submit noun newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events.
- adrianN 10y ago
  From the guidelines: What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
geodel 10y ago
It depends. Specially if it has anything to do with Javascript related framework. In that world I think best practices and technologies change weekly.
the_duke 10y ago
It's called sarcasm, people.
ellisv 10y ago
I think the point was to note that this isn't a new article. Also Julia has had several bug fixes and a minor version bump (with some major changes) since the article was written.
ChrisRackauckas 10y ago
6 months is a long time ago in Julia land. Since then, the standard Julia install is a minor version higher which makes -O3 optimization standard, has . syntax for automatic fused broadcasts (simple loop fusing for MATLAB-style vectorization), anonymous functions are orders of magnitude faster, Base has been slimmed and many new organizations like JuliaMath and JuliaDiffEq have been developed with new packages to enhance performance for these kinds of things. In Julia you can program really fast so the language (written in Julia) and the package ecosystem evolves fast as well. Code from 6 months ago is recognizably different (at least right now).
- coldtea 10y ago
  >months is a long time ago in Julia land. Regarding minutiae such as these maybe. But I've been following Julia on and off for close to 5 years, and it's mostly crickets even among "major" versions (e.g 0.2 to 0.3. to 0.4 etc). That said are little better/faster/picking up this year.