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Stopped using python in my research. Now I stick with Matlab/Julia.
by jostmey 12y ago
Stopped using python in my research. Now I stick with Matlab/Julia.
- turnip1979 12y agoWhy did you stop? Surely, the 2.x vs 3.x schism didn't cause this?
- ylem 12y agoWhy? I ask because I switched from using Matlab to using python. I found Matlab was great for getting things done, but it was difficult to maintain/distribute larger projects--much less deal with interfaces to the web, etc. I also found (at the time) that parallelization was easier with python. I haven't experimented with Julia.
- tmalsburg2 12y agoI stopped using Python in my research, too. Now I'm using R which is so terrible as a language that for the first two years I felt insulted every time I wrote code in it. However, I stuck with it and even like it now because it has an amazing ecosystem. (I also got used to expressing things in terms of vector and matrix operations.) Julia is promising but things are still too much in flux for my taste to consider it for serious work. I have no doubts about Julia as a language but I'm not sure if they are going to able to build an ecosystem like R's. They're not always making it easy for R developers to switch. Fortunately, some R veterans like Doug Bates are heavily investing in Julia. I hope others will follow.