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It's just me or everytime Julia is in HN a veritable army of shills follows
by iopiop 8y ago
It's just me or everytime Julia is in HN a veritable army of shills follows
- boromi 8y agoCare to elaborate? I think a lot of HN posts around popular technologies will clearly have a strong group of followers, not sure why it would be appropriate to call them `shills`. So maybe there is or maybe it's just genuine interest in the novel parallel task runtime. I'd like to think it's the later.
- iopiop 8y agoIn all this years reading HN, I don't recall seeing such an - I am afraid, organized - push for a programming language or technology. Seems the MIT people behind Julia, believes that marketing is as important as the technical merits of the language
- fundamental 8y agoI'd say it's reasonable to say that individuals in the Julia community have made an effort to make the project visible, though that's not to minimize the work itself IMO. Julia is something which offers a solution to pain points in various long standing languages and since there are many individuals in the general data science space here (which Julia excels in), I would expect Julia to come up somewhat frequently.
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