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HN hasn’t really taken to Julia yet, but I am also a big fan. I’m not even a programmer really, just had some python experience, and I was able to hack together
by beowulfey 7y ago
HN hasn’t really taken to Julia yet, but I am also a big fan. I’m not even a programmer really, just had some python experience, and I was able to hack together a program that extracted molecular contact data from protein structures and draw contact maps for them all. It runs in a few minutes for 10000 structures. I did zero optimization on it! The language is incredibly fast and I really think it’s easy to use.
- ChrisRackauckas 7y agoI think it's partly just the audience. HN seems to have a lot of professional programmers, which is similar to but not quite the same as computational scientists. That doesn't mean there's no overlap, but for example I haven't met a people (other than one Google person) at a recent physics-informed learning or scientific machine learning conference who is a HN reader, which really explained why none of the stories in those domains have been getting HN traction even though HN seems very ML/AI-positive. Julia is in this weird middle ground where its ML/AI stories seem to get a lot of HN traction as a programming languages topic given the HN audience, but in reality it has a lot more people doing things like research in numerical linear algebra, numerical differential equations, statistics, bioinformatics, etc. but fast methods for block-banded matrices won't hit science press.