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You know what? In the past, I was toying with the idea of building Julia IDE. In the end, I decided to build something else. So the pain point is still there.
by langitbiru 6y ago
You know what? In the past, I was toying with the idea of building Julia IDE. In the end, I decided to build something else.
So the pain point is still there. Looking at this thread, it could be a good idea to build Julia IDE. Then you can apply for funding in the next YC batch. 6 months should be enough to build an MVP.
Bonus point if you could build Julia IDE with Rust. In Show HN, surely you would get a lot of karma points. But we need to be realistic. Rust does not have a solid GUI library. If I chose to build Julia IDE, I would use either C++ with Qt or C++ with wxWidgets.
- andi999 6y agoIt doesnt sound good that you do not trust julia as a source language for the IDE, actually didnt Julia wanted to solve the two language problem?
- langitbiru 6y agoI got the impression that Julia is catered to numerical computing domain (data science and alike), not general purpose programming language like Python. Does Julia have a good desktop programming library? I guess I am wrong. However when I looked at the website (https://julialang.org https://julialang.org), in the Ecosystem section, they listed these things: Visualization, General Purpose, Data Science, Machine Learning, Scientific Domains, Parallel Computing. I think they should market it in a different way. "General Purpose" should be expanded to "Web Programming", "Desktop Programming", etc.