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Apple was not a unicorn that could single handedly force changes among developers then. Julia has plenty of funding and is pretty much a syntactic clone of Dyla
by sansnomme 7y ago
Apple was not a unicorn that could single handedly force changes among developers then. Julia has plenty of funding and is pretty much a syntactic clone of Dylan (cleaned up somewhat) and it's trending on HN every other day.
- User23 7y agoI hope there isn't an AI Winter 2.0 that strangles Julia as the first go around did Common Lisp.
- ddragon 7y agoJulia isn't that much positioned as an AI language, it's more of a numerical analysis and scientific computing language at this point competing with matlab, which is something that doesn't go through hype cycles. The fact that it's so well positioned for AI research is the result of that focus (high performance, expressive, interactive and math focused) plus being heavily inspired in Common Lisp, which means the language can be easily extended for new purposes (and CLOS was a brilliant system that didn't get the attention it deserved in the mainstream). Python is the AI language, and it's already more than large enough to survive many AI winters (plus "AI" is more powerful and useful every winter).
- pjmlp 7y agoPython is the AI glue language. And it remains to be seen for how long, given C++20, Julia, ML.NET, Swift for Tensorflow and other approaches using the same underlying native libs.