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"Why not use Fortran 2008 if performance matters?"

• pekk 13y ago
  Well, why not? Julia is very different from Python, if I am willing to use a completely different tool then the field is wide open and includes anything that has better performance on average
  • StefanKarpinski 13y ago
    Julia's mental programming model for many things is not much different from Python: dynamically typed, pass by sharing, the implicit scoping rules are even quite similar. Sure, Julia has a few extra bells and whistles, like type annotations and dynamic multiple dispatch (which you can ignore and you have something very much like Python but faster), but still, Fortran and C++ are much more different from Python than Julia is.
    • tejinderss 13y ago
      Any tentative idea when Julia 1.0 will be released?
      • StefanKarpinski 13y ago
        Possibly late 2014 or early 2015, but we're not going to rush it if things don't feel ready yet.
  • coldtea 13y ago
    Because not all "completely different tools" are equally valid or use the same compromises.