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Not every language has to have webdev functionality shoehorned into it. I hardly think that having more web developers involved would speed up the development o
by zhemao 13y ago
Not every language has to have webdev functionality shoehorned into it. I hardly think that having more web developers involved would speed up the development of the high quality scientific packages that Julia contributors are already currently working on. The people the Julia community should focus on attracting are data scientists and researchers in quantitative fields. That being said, the guys at Hackerschool are working on a web framework for Julia https://github.com/hackerschool/Morsel.jl https://github.com/hackerschool/Morsel.jl.
Oh and major kudos to the Julia team. This is a seriously awesome piece of software. The decision to write most of the runtime in Julia itself and rely on a solid JIT compiler and simple FFI to get the necessary performance was very well thought out.
- marcosdumay 13y agoI agree that web developers may not help building a scientific computation language. But... > Not every language has to have webdev functionality shoehorned into it. I'm still in doubt about this. Web is the basic human I/O nowadays.
- krichman 13y agoWeb is the low-hanging fruit. Take a nice-looking language, add a web framework, and developers can instantly do something useful in a language they like. And as you say, it's a widespread need, so even a percentage of that attention is quite a few people. I think if a language really nailed a niche, especially a lucrative one like scientific/numeric computing, it could be successful on those merits alone, because it would get a large percentage of that niche.