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> It's an impressive project, but I'm not sure the niche is big enough. Big enough for what? Instead of a gratuitous critique of its "benefit to professionals"
by chmaynard 5y ago
> It's an impressive project, but I'm not sure the niche is big enough.
Big enough for what? Instead of a gratuitous critique of its "benefit to professionals", maybe you could comment on the project's design choices and implementation. That would be more useful to us amateurs.
- ivirshup 5y agoBig enough to attract developers. As a bioinformatic tool developer, I'm probably gonna stick with Python and Julia since I have access to wider ecosystem of general purpose mathematical libraries and expertise.
- fwip 5y agoYeah, basically this. A big enough niche to have enough users to survive as a language, and to be worth recommending to colleagues.