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The authors claim Julia is a general programming language, but after a few tries I am not totally sure about that. Yes, it's a nice programming language for sci

The authors claim Julia is a general programming language, but after a few tries I am not totally sure about that. Yes, it's a nice programming language for scientific computing but I am afraid its usefulness stops there. Matlab is (was?) the default tool for computational science, and Julia borrows lots from it. I'd say it's safe to put Julia in the same category with Matlab and Mathematica

montalbano 8y ago
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/not-only-for-technical-computing-changing-the-narrative-around-the-usecase-for-julia/19784 https://discourse.julialang.org/t/not-only-for-technical-com...
krull10 8y ago
What about the Julia 1.0 language design do you find prevents general purpose programming?
- xiaodai 8y ago
  I think he's just trolling...
h8hawk 8y ago
People are using Javascript or python for real production. How those are general purpose and Julia is not?
xiaodai 8y ago
Conceivably you can see a backen server being built in Julia e.g. https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Mux.jl https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Mux.jl But I can't imagine anyone would choose Matlab or Mathematica to build a backend...
- Recurecur 8y ago
  >Conceivably you can see a backen server being built in Julia e.g. https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Mux.jl https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Mux.jl >But I can't imagine anyone would choose Matlab or Mathematica to build a backend... Julia is a clean, concise language that has so far mainly been focused on numerics. People are looking at using it in many other areas, for instance real-time robotic control: http://www.juliarobotics.org/ http://www.juliarobotics.org/ This means that at least some Julia folk are looking at ways of avoiding garbage collection during critical code sections... Data center efficiency is a concern, and there is real interest in better languages for web applications. Rust and Swift both have projects exploring this area. Julia would fit well in that space, and in my opinion its syntax is much cleaner than either.

montalbano 8y ago

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/not-only-for-technical-computing-changing-the-narrative-around-the-usecase-for-julia/19784 https://discourse.julialang.org/t/not-only-for-technical-com...

krull10 8y ago

What about the Julia 1.0 language design do you find prevents general purpose programming?

xiaodai 8y ago
I think he's just trolling...

h8hawk 8y ago

People are using Javascript or python for real production. How those are general purpose and Julia is not?

xiaodai 8y ago

Conceivably you can see a backen server being built in Julia e.g. https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Mux.jl https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Mux.jl But I can't imagine anyone would choose Matlab or Mathematica to build a backend...

Recurecur 8y ago
>Conceivably you can see a backen server being built in Julia e.g. https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Mux.jl https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Mux.jl >But I can't imagine anyone would choose Matlab or Mathematica to build a backend... Julia is a clean, concise language that has so far mainly been focused on numerics. People are looking at using it in many other areas, for instance real-time robotic control: http://www.juliarobotics.org/ http://www.juliarobotics.org/ This means that at least some Julia folk are looking at ways of avoiding garbage collection during critical code sections... Data center efficiency is a concern, and there is real interest in better languages for web applications. Rust and Swift both have projects exploring this area. Julia would fit well in that space, and in my opinion its syntax is much cleaner than either.