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note that as a few other commenters have pointed out, this situation will improve greatly in 1.12 (although still many rough edges)

• ModernMech 1y ago
  Yeah, that's what I've been hearing about Julia for about 10 years now: "situation will improve greatly in the next version, but still many rough edges remain". I've been involved in a few programming language projects, so I'm sympathetic as to how much work goes into one and how long they can take. At the same time, it makes me wary of Julia, because it highlights that progress is very slow. I think Julia is trying to be too much at once. It's hard enough to be a dynamic, interactive language, but they also want to claim to be performant and compiled. That's a lot of complexity for a small team to handle and deliver on.
  • adgjlsfhk1 1y ago
    Different things have been improving for the past 10 years. TTFX is in a good spot now, multithreading is in a pretty good spot now, GC issues for most people are basically solved. AOT compilation was pretty much the last big item that a lot of people wanted, and that has recently (within the last year) gotten to the point where the code exists, it's merged, and it will be releasing soon (and then spending the next year or two getting improved)
  • pjmlp 1y ago
    That has been the situation with many programming languages until they finally explode, including Python, which is 34 years old, and also was largely ignored for a decade until Zope in 2000's.