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There is another important niche I am particularly excited about: programming language research geeks and lisp geeks. The pervasive multiple-dispatch in Julia p

There is another important niche I am particularly excited about: programming language research geeks and lisp geeks. The pervasive multiple-dispatch in Julia provides such a beautiful way to architecture a complicated piece of code.

ampdepolymerase 5y ago
Those two niches don't pay. They are effectively useless outside of the occasional evangelism on HN.
- pjmlp 5y ago
  Who do you think puts money to action on LLVM, GCC, Swift, Rust, .NET (C#, F#, VB), Scala,....?
- trenchgun 5y ago
  Money does not create code, humans do.
  - xiaodai 5y ago
    Money don't do jobs, humans do. You see the logical fallacy in ur argument now?
- UncleOxidant 5y ago
  There's a Compiler and Runtime Engineer position listed at https://juliacomputing.com/jobs/ https://juliacomputing.com/jobs/ which presumably pays money.
pjmlp 5y ago
Yep, that is my niche.
vletal 5y ago
> The pervasive multiple-dispatch in Julia provides such a beautiful way to architecture a complicated piece of code. On the other hand it makes function discovery almost impossible [1]. Combined with the way how 'using' keyword exports a predefined subset of functions, this makes the language doomed from larger adoption outside of academia at least as long as there is no superb autocompletion and IDE support. [1] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/my-mental-load-using-julia-is-much-higher-than-e-g-in-python-how-to-reduce-it/18902/4 https://discourse.julialang.org/t/my-mental-load-using-julia...
- mccoyb 5y ago
  Have you seen Shuhei Kadowaki's work on JET.jl (?) If you're curious: https://github.com/aviatesk/JET.jl https://github.com/aviatesk/JET.jl This may seem more about performance (than IDE development) but Shuhei is one of the driving contributors behind developing the capabilities to use compiler capabilities for IDE integration -- and indeed JET.jl contains the kernel of a number of these capabilities.

ampdepolymerase 5y ago

Those two niches don't pay. They are effectively useless outside of the occasional evangelism on HN.

pjmlp 5y ago
Who do you think puts money to action on LLVM, GCC, Swift, Rust, .NET (C#, F#, VB), Scala,....?
trenchgun 5y ago
Money does not create code, humans do.
- xiaodai 5y ago
  Money don't do jobs, humans do. You see the logical fallacy in ur argument now?
UncleOxidant 5y ago
There's a Compiler and Runtime Engineer position listed at https://juliacomputing.com/jobs/ https://juliacomputing.com/jobs/ which presumably pays money.

pjmlp 5y ago

Yep, that is my niche.

vletal 5y ago

> The pervasive multiple-dispatch in Julia provides such a beautiful way to architecture a complicated piece of code. On the other hand it makes function discovery almost impossible [1]. Combined with the way how 'using' keyword exports a predefined subset of functions, this makes the language doomed from larger adoption outside of academia at least as long as there is no superb autocompletion and IDE support. [1] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/my-mental-load-using-julia-is-much-higher-than-e-g-in-python-how-to-reduce-it/18902/4 https://discourse.julialang.org/t/my-mental-load-using-julia...

mccoyb 5y ago
Have you seen Shuhei Kadowaki's work on JET.jl (?) If you're curious: https://github.com/aviatesk/JET.jl https://github.com/aviatesk/JET.jl This may seem more about performance (than IDE development) but Shuhei is one of the driving contributors behind developing the capabilities to use compiler capabilities for IDE integration -- and indeed JET.jl contains the kernel of a number of these capabilities.