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This. Somebody should actually trace the milestones that led to the current state as it not by any means obvious why it happened. At some point a winner-takes-a
by college_physics 4y ago
This. Somebody should actually trace the milestones that led to the current state as it not by any means obvious why it happened. At some point a winner-takes-all dynamic obscured some direct competitors like R or julia but prior to that all bets were open. It could also have been c++, since libraries like armadillo and eigen make it easy to write script-like code. Or even java that is everywhere in enterprize
- syockit 4y agoJulia came too late to the scene. When I first started using Julia 0.3, there was already Theano for Python, and Tensorflow was in the making. R for some reason is not as easily navigable as Python. The slowness of compiling Armadillo and Eigen makes it a no-go for iterating on new ideas. Maybe it should be asked instead why Octave didn't take hold, as Matlab is popular among engineering communities and the syntax is also simple enough to understand.