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Julia can be a good competitor to Python, but far in the future. Now it's just not there yet. Go is interesting, but really a different (and perhaps smaller) u

by js8 10y ago

Julia can be a good competitor to Python, but far in the future. Now it's just not there yet. Go is interesting, but really a different (and perhaps smaller) use case. What, for instance, I do in Python? That little one-off script that converts one thing to another or calculates something - I am not sure why I would even bother thinking about Go. I have no doubt that at some point, Python will be replaced by something. But I don't think it will be any of the languages that are currently in widespread use. Heck, C is also not based on solid foundations (I mean like type theory or something), and it wasn't fully replaced yet.

xamuel 10y ago
>C is also not based on solid foundations C is based on the solidest possible foundation: the actual hardware CPU.
- Thiez 10y ago
  The C abstract machine doesn't have that much in common with any actual hardware. I suppose it sort-of resembled the PDP-11 once.
  - dekhn 10y ago
    C does not define an abstract machine. That's the runtime implementation's job.
statsmatscats 10y ago
What's wrong with Julia? 1.0 should be coming out in a bit less than a year.