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yes. Julia looks like a quality language but suffers the usual new kid on teh block hassles - very few packages so you have to spend too long rolling your own.
by zygomega 14y ago
yes. Julia looks like a quality language but suffers the usual new kid on teh block hassles - very few packages so you have to spend too long rolling your own.
- pygy_ 14y agoAre there specific packages that you would currently need, but aren't there (yet), or is it a more general concern about the relative package scarcity and unforseen changes to / future needs of your code?
- zygomega 14y agoIt's not specific, it's just my recent experience. Hadley released his bigvis package a few weeks ago, and it contains the beginnings of a weighted average routine I sure can use. mmap is a package that let me create a fast db from scratch in a day. ggplot, lattice and all the charting routines are a joy to work with. I'm interested in random forests today, and I bet there's a package that links to the standard libraries whatever they are. This is also probably true for python, but Julia you'd have to build the API.