Re:Giving up on Julia
by vitaut on Friday May 13, 2016 @11:53PM
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> Are we talking about a data scientist performing initial, exploratory analysis on a very small subset of data?
Yes, that's one example. Also when debugging one usually uses small data sets. There are plenty of cases where runtime is short.
I think the problem is that Julia is somewhat vague on how it should be used. If it stated explicitly that it is intended to be used in MATLAB-like fashion with one long-running instance that would save people from trying to use it as Python or other dynamic language.
Yes, that's one example. Also when debugging one usually uses small data sets. There are plenty of cases where runtime is short.
I think the problem is that Julia is somewhat vague on how it should be used. If it stated explicitly that it is intended to be used in MATLAB-like fashion with one long-running instance that would save people from trying to use it as Python or other dynamic language.