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Julia Crash Course: Learn the worlds fastest growing programming language

eigenspace 4y ago
Why would you call it the “world’s fastest growing programming language”? Sounds like a patently false claim to me, bad way to start a book.
- nathanaldensr 4y ago
  Also, terms like "fastest-growing" are nearly always maybe statistically true but practically lies. If my pet programming language goes from me being its only user to ten people in a day, then it's the fastest-growing because it grew by 1000%. We'd need to know the count before, count after, and time period to know for sure whether the Julia claim is true.
  - eigenspace 4y ago
    There’s also just no way it’s statistically true. I love julia, and it is growing, but it’s growth is rather slow right now.
    - ChrisRackauckas 4y ago
      Its growth has been pretty amazing in the last year. I mean, it's been so fast that no one even knows how to plan for it anymore. We setup a meetup in Denmark expecting 20 people to show up and then had to change reservations because 70 people showed up, then ran some extra workshops, then setup http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/~apek/SCIML2022/ http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/~apek/SCIML2022/ for a 30 people week long course, and then had to petition to remove the cap and change rooms to accommodate the 120 sign ups! And that's all just one piece of just this summer: I haven't had a home since August because there are so many massive Julia events overshooting their enrollments that I've just been hopping UK, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Dallas, Colorado, Maryland, Florida, California, Greece, Italy, ... with each thing having more interest than organizers could accommodate. This year has been absolutely insane and the number of people in the post-covid world is so drastically different that no one really knows how to put on events of this size. It's been an absolutely amazing though rather hectic thing to experience. I don't know if you could call it fastest growing, but it's at least been exponential and faster than most people can realize until you show up somewhere since every case has blown expectations by a few times.

Why would you call it the “world’s fastest growing programming language”? Sounds like a patently false claim to me, bad way to start a book.

nathanaldensr 4y ago
Also, terms like "fastest-growing" are nearly always maybe statistically true but practically lies. If my pet programming language goes from me being its only user to ten people in a day, then it's the fastest-growing because it grew by 1000%. We'd need to know the count before, count after, and time period to know for sure whether the Julia claim is true.
- eigenspace 4y ago
  There’s also just no way it’s statistically true. I love julia, and it is growing, but it’s growth is rather slow right now.
  - ChrisRackauckas 4y ago
    Its growth has been pretty amazing in the last year. I mean, it's been so fast that no one even knows how to plan for it anymore. We setup a meetup in Denmark expecting 20 people to show up and then had to change reservations because 70 people showed up, then ran some extra workshops, then setup http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/~apek/SCIML2022/ http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/~apek/SCIML2022/ for a 30 people week long course, and then had to petition to remove the cap and change rooms to accommodate the 120 sign ups! And that's all just one piece of just this summer: I haven't had a home since August because there are so many massive Julia events overshooting their enrollments that I've just been hopping UK, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Dallas, Colorado, Maryland, Florida, California, Greece, Italy, ... with each thing having more interest than organizers could accommodate. This year has been absolutely insane and the number of people in the post-covid world is so drastically different that no one really knows how to put on events of this size. It's been an absolutely amazing though rather hectic thing to experience. I don't know if you could call it fastest growing, but it's at least been exponential and faster than most people can realize until you show up somewhere since every case has blown expectations by a few times.