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These comments seem out of date. There hasn’t been an issue, really, with breaking code for quite a while, since 1.0. They also show a lack of understanding in
by leephillips 5y ago
These comments seem out of date. There hasn’t been an issue, really, with breaking code for quite a while, since 1.0. They also show a lack of understanding in some respects, for example complaining about the hello world memory usage. Running a Julia program in the usual way loads the runtime.
For another take, Jack Dongarra was just awarded 2021 ACM Turing prize. He’s the creative force behind LINPACK and BLAS, and says that Julia is a good candidate for the “next computing paradigm”: https://www.zdnet.com/article/jack-dongarra-who-made-supercomputers-usable-awarded-2021-acm-turing-prize/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/jack-dongarra-who-made-superco...
- sundarurfriend 5y agoSome of the comments (in the original link in your parent comment) are pretty weird: > I sometimes wish [Julia] had just appeared one day as version 1, and made periodic updates every year or three. > Its “multi-paradigm” nature. Yeah, I know other languages have this too, but it does tend to bloat a language. And some are just funny: > The language is not stable, and by that I mean it seems to have a lot of bugs [links to github issues with label:bug]. You can’t really call something that has bugs stable.
- leephillips 5y agoYeah. Of course there are bugs, but none of them are serious. Julia is still a young language, but it’s rock solid and used in high stakes, high performance computing in industry, government, and academia. Like I said, there are only four high-level languages that can perform at this level. Julia is certainly the most advanced and interesting of these, and, yes, it’s just a lot of fun to use.