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No Windows support, really ?!
by kib2 15y ago
No Windows support, really ?!
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- simonw 15y agoThat's pretty common for new language implementations - Node.js was around for a couple of years before the Windows port was ready. To be honest, if you're targeting early adopters of a programming language Linux and Mac support is probably a lot more important than Windows. Smart Windows users can always run Linux in a VM.
- mjwalshe 15y agoand most users of this sort of languages aren't going to be running it on windows but on Unix systems.
- kib2 15y agoAre you insinuating that Windows users are too stupid to use those languages (and use only rotten ones like V.B etc. ) ? Please, be a minimum objective and constructive.
- ajdecon 15y agoI doubt it was intended as an insult. Julia (and other scientific languages) are often used in clustered environments, and Linux is much, much more common than Windows in HPC.
- oneofthose 15y agoFrom my experience, a fair amount of scientific computing is done on Windows through Matlab.
- ViralBShah 15y agoIt is true that a number of people do their scientific computing on Windows+Matlab or Windows+R, but that most parallel stuff is typically on linux clusters. It would be nice if julia worked on both. It is not by design that we do not have Windows support. It's just that none of us uses windows. We do believe that code is largely portable, and with a little effort, it can be built on cygwin or mingw. Nothing like a native port though. Maybe someone who is familiar with windows will come along and contribute. This is a common question our friends and colleagues ask us.
- bo1024 15y agoLook at the goal applications: scientific computing, automatic multithreading/parallelism, distributed tasks across multiple machines. That doesn't sound trivial to port to Windows, and I'm sure their own application was their first priority.