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...was thinking of the same thing. Julia seems much nicer for the use case of writing scicomp code, but Go overall will be a much more popular language. How wou
by nnq 14y ago
...was thinking of the same thing. Julia seems much nicer for the use case of writing scicomp code, but Go overall will be a much more popular language. How would you choose one of them for writing performance tuned Python extensions?
- pjmlp 14y agoIf it is for writing extensions, then PyPy would be a better option if it is to stay in Python land. For writing new code from scratch, Julia is a much better option. The language is not yet 1.0 and already achieves parity to C compilers in many algorithms. Go compilers are yet to match JVM and .NET speeds, let alone C.
- codygman 14y agoThanks, I hadn't previously heard of Julia.
- pjmlp 14y agoYou will probably find comments from me here dismissing the language when it was initially announced, but after watching the MIT presentations on its current state I think the language has a future in technical computing. http://julialang.org/blog/2013/03/julia-tutorial-MIT/ http://julialang.org/blog/2013/03/julia-tutorial-MIT/
- codygman 14y agoI respectfully disagree with some of your other opinions, but I think you might be on to something with Julia :D