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Interesting that you mention IJulia. My concern with it is that when you are trying to develop a new technique or algorithm, the idea of introducing extra laye
by Toenex 13y ago
Interesting that you mention IJulia. My concern with it is that when you are trying to develop a new technique or algorithm, the idea of introducing extra layers of code running in another system (in this case IPython) seems like a lot to deal with. Maybe I'm just a wimp ;)
- 3JPLW 13y agoBut it's not running through Python at all (as I understand it). The kernel is all implemented in Julia. It just uses the IPython frontend and architecture. See this post on the implementation of IHaskell[1] for more details. My understanding is that IJulia uses the same concepts. Notably, when running IJulia, you can't even use %%magics to change back to Python mode. 1. http://andrew.gibiansky.com/blog/ipython/ipython-kernels/ http://andrew.gibiansky.com/blog/ipython/ipython-kernels/ (Also, it's firmly endorsed by the language creators. Stefan recently gave a talk using IJulia).
- Toenex 13y agoThanks for the explanation and link. I think you are correct in that it doesn't appear to be using any Python. The demo I saw was given by Fernando Perez [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F4rFuIb1Ie4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F4rFu...] where he demonstrated a cross language example which, whilst technically impressive, wasn't something I felt I would attempt. Like I said I'm probably just a wimp.