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that's not really acceptable. I'm a big julia fanboy, have been since 0.4 (proof in bio) but dismissing real pain felt by newcomers is kind of bad for the ecos
by dnautics 5y ago
that's not really acceptable. I'm a big julia fanboy, have been since 0.4 (proof in bio) but dismissing real pain felt by newcomers is kind of bad for the ecosystem.
- manwe150 5y agoWhat editor do you use, if I may ask, and have you asked them to add unicode support? Part of the goal in permitting unicode variable names is that more and more niche editors might be forced to become fluent in languages other than english, benefits everyone (and might be a bit overdue at this point). I use vim, and have a completions plugin (part of julia-vim mode), so that I can write \mu<tab> for any unicode name, which makes it as easy to type as "mu", but easier for me to read (as it matches my textbook expectation of the formula).
- dnautics 5y agoIt's not a display issue. Do I want to type ctrl-u <whatever hex> or copy-paste if I want to write some code that calls a function when I'm playing around with a new library? Well those are the two strategies I've used with experience... But some person coming new to Julia will grab some package, and then see some function call and get deer in the headlights "how the hell do i do this". And LaTeX codes are not always obvious. For example it's \triangleleft but \leftarrow