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Reading this post it seems that Julia is the silver bullet for every programming problems (or at least the ones addressable in python). I guess it's not. It is

Reading this post it seems that Julia is the silver bullet for every programming problems (or at least the ones addressable in python). I guess it's not. It is just another (very useful, admittedly) tool for the job. I really can't stand when every new language or framework or technology or whatever tries to be THE silver bullet. How long it will be before we learn that such a thing doesn't exist and we are always going to learn new tools to solve problems in a hopefully more efficient way? Maybe in the future we'll have such a thing, but I bet my 2 pennies that it won't be either Julia or any of the existing languages. Edit: speaking specifically about the language I think that it's a very good effort and it can be only a good thing for the current languages ecosystem, even if I don't appreciate some of its idiosyncrasies.

tigershark 10y ago
The downvote without any whatsoever explanation is just the confirmation that nowadays the different languages/technologies are picked up mainly because of fanboysm/cargo cult rather than because they are useful for a very specific problem. It's easier to pickup whatever other people are choosing for themselves in the same way as it's easier just to press the downvote button without any explanation. Honestly this social side (upvote/downvote) leaves me quite sad thinking about the endless discussion that were triggered once upon a time and that nowadays are just becoming a war of upvotes/downvotes.
- iamed2 10y ago
  I think the downvotes are probably because the article didn't actually talk about Julia that way. And Julia definitely expresses a target audience and target problem domain. As a member of the Julia community, I don't see people jumping on board because of "fanboyism". People come because they have a problem that Julia is suited to solve and they have been disappointed with the alternatives.

tigershark 10y ago

The downvote without any whatsoever explanation is just the confirmation that nowadays the different languages/technologies are picked up mainly because of fanboysm/cargo cult rather than because they are useful for a very specific problem. It's easier to pickup whatever other people are choosing for themselves in the same way as it's easier just to press the downvote button without any explanation. Honestly this social side (upvote/downvote) leaves me quite sad thinking about the endless discussion that were triggered once upon a time and that nowadays are just becoming a war of upvotes/downvotes.

iamed2 10y ago
I think the downvotes are probably because the article didn't actually talk about Julia that way. And Julia definitely expresses a target audience and target problem domain. As a member of the Julia community, I don't see people jumping on board because of "fanboyism". People come because they have a problem that Julia is suited to solve and they have been disappointed with the alternatives.