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I tried julia last year, and it was a nightmare of version skew. Has it improved in that regard at all?
by AlexCoventry 9y ago
I tried julia last year, and it was a nightmare of version skew. Has it improved in that regard at all?
- ChrisRackauckas 9y agoIf you need something stable, wait until a bit after 1.0, like you would with any Windows release. Right now it's expected that things will change and break with language updates, but the next one is the 1.0 which is the "we stop breaking things now"
- AlexCoventry 9y agoThat's what I was told about 0.4 -> 0.5 last year.
- ChrisRackauckas 9y agoBy who? Someone who isn't part of the development team? There was an issue set for v0.5 called "Arraypocolypse" that was meant to change a ton of things related to arrays, and that was known months (a year?) before v0.5 was out. Semvar is used for a reason: pre-1.0 is all breaking.
- AlexCoventry 9y agoPeople on gitter, IIRC... I'm sure there's a record of it somewhere. Half the packages I wanted to use were still on 0.4, half were on 0.5, and the combination was incompatible.