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Re:Julia 0.5 Highlights by stewbrew on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:06PM (#12685675)
WRT julia's type system: I still don't get it. Is Julia dynamically or statically typed? Are type errors detected at compile time (or since it's jitted when loading a file) or at runtime (i.e. when the code is executed)? I personally don't see much use in just another dynamically typed language that gives me similar errors as R does.
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Re:Julia 0.5 Highlights by StefanKarpinski on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:22PM (#12685840)
Dynamic: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28078089/is-julia-dynamic...

Julia uses its type system for:

- self-documentation

- reduction of boilerplate manual type checking that litters libraries in dynamic languages

- all those times you need to express the type of something, which happens especially frequently in numerical code

- performance

In the future, some "type linting" could be built into the standard library since we can infer types for so much code, but it isn't the top priority.

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