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The details and implications seem to be disputed, but in any case, What in the world does this have to do with Julia? What will be accomplished by involving an
by amkkma 5y ago
The details and implications seem to be disputed, but in any case, What in the world does this have to do with Julia? What will be accomplished by involving an MIT open source language which is opening new horizons in climate science, physics, economics and other societally important fields?
The happiness and productivity of current and next gen programmers and data scientists are relying Julia's success. If you have ever used the mess that is the pydata stack and its myriad different incompatible type systems, DSLs and APIs, and then breathed the fresh air of Julia, this should resonate. (numpy+pytorch+TF+python lists+ numba+pymc3, jax etc etc )
I have zero affiliation with Viral or Julia Computing, I'm just a guy who wants to continue enjoying writing the next line of code without looking up pandas docs for millionth time.
- tachyons 5y ago> What in the world does this have to do with Julia? Nothing, It is just the claim to fame of the linked person
- sundarurfriend 5y ago> The happiness and productivity of current and next gen programmers and data scientists are relying Julia's success. I'm a big Julia fan, but "relying [on]" seems like an overstatement - "would be enhanced by" is as far as I'd be willing to go. Let's be honest, Julia is great, but in the unlikely unfortunate event that it crashed and burned, a lot of would be saddened, but we'll move on and improve the ecosystem in other ways. (And trust me, as an ex-Perl guy, I know a lot about moving on from languages.) Not that any of these Twitter drama should affect Julia in any case, and it isn't likely to.