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There's a difference between popular and "not a toy language." I'm not arguing Julia isn't used, I'm arguing it's not used often enough to be a merit irrespecti

There's a difference between popular and "not a toy language." I'm not arguing Julia isn't used, I'm arguing it's not used often enough to be a merit irrespective of other reasons.

pjmlp 6y ago
Interesting given some of the renowned names using it, probably with more revenue than plenty of Rust unicorns.
- MiroF 6y ago
  Apple, Microsoft, Google? This website isn't counting "Julia only" stacks, it's just companies that have used Julia for one project or another. If you really want to compare that to rust, julia is again going to fall short.
  - pjmlp 6y ago
    Those were not the companies I had in mind with my Rust remark, but if you so wish, Swift, Kotlin/Native, Go, C++, .NET Native, Verona, Checked C, Objective-C. It remains to be seen how much Rust they will actually make into tier 1 OS SDKs for userspace applications. In fact, currently it looks more they are bringing their experience with Rust into their platform languages than anything else. Swift memory ownership, Verona, C++ Core Guidelines checker, Kotlin/Native ownership rules. Beware wishing for Julia's downfall with glass ceilings.
socialdemocrat 6y ago
Julia is used in serious scientific work. Swift isn’t. Massive projects running on super computers such a next generation climate models are written Julia. Many best of breeds scientific packages are written in Julia. Swift while great for App development has limited presence in the scientific field.