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Maybe that's true, but I think Julia is the first effort to prove that out in the numerical/statistical world, and while lovely the ecosystem is far behind beca
by claytonjy 8y ago
Maybe that's true, but I think Julia is the first effort to prove that out in the numerical/statistical world, and while lovely the ecosystem is far behind because of how much newer it is.
- gameswithgo 8y agojavascript showed that dynamically typed languages can be jitted well. It is just hard, and we spread our efforts over so many languages they don't all have the resources to do it.
- pjmlp 8y agoSELF and Dylan were there first.
- claytonjy 8y agosure, but there's plenty of other reasons why JS isn't a contender in this interactive-data-analysis space
- gameswithgo 8y agooh for sure, but for Python/R the barrier to speed isn't any of their important productivity features (as far as I know) but just a high quality compiler/JIT If I was Lord Of Computing I wouldn't let languages out of beta until they had a high quality compiler or JIT. Turns out I am not though.
- greenshackle2 8y agoIs PyPy not high quality?
- jabl 8y agoWhat Julia showed is that if you carefully design the language with JIT in mind, the task is MUCH easier. Julia gets very good performance without the massive manpower that has gone into Javascript VM's.