4 ms·
The way I have experienced it (with Javascript, Perl, Python and Matlab) is that many casual users give up whenever you mention packaging. Any language that let
by ingenieroariel 8y ago
The way I have experienced it (with Javascript, Perl, Python and Matlab) is that many casual users give up whenever you mention packaging. Any language that lets people go very far without involving external modules will get significant usage from amateur programmers.
- setr 8y agoHell, so do I; I absolutely hate learning new package ecosystems & infrastructure (but I absolutely do not have interest in learning a language without a decent package infrastructure). Probably a bigger blocker for me than learning the language itself! But it's not clear to me that this "challenge" is intended to say that array operations are easy, for a newcomer to the language. As I understood it, it's an argument for Julia being better in the long run, for the code that requires "developer effort, performance and extensibility"; that is, elements of the language beyond the first few days of using it, for packages larger than what would be written by "amateur programmers" If depicting usage for the amateur was the main point of the article, it totally went over my head
- ingenieroariel 8y agoPosted my comment before reading the challenge, you are right it is definitely not about newcomers.
- simondanisch 8y ago>If depicting usage for the amateur was the main point of the article You understood that right, it is not :) That's why I wrote, that I'd probably need years to create the same implementation in any other language. I do think it does have a widespread implication for the ecosystem though, and therefore at some point will also be relevant to newcomers.