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Re:Julia 1.0 by StefanKarpinski on Thursday August 09, 2018 @12:16PM (#17725515)
I do think we should add a code sample prominently on the page, however. I've always find it really frustrating when I look at a programming language and can't get a quick sense of how it looks. If a language looked like, say, APL, I'd be reluctant to use it even if it had an impressive ecosystem.

Issue filed: https://github.com/JuliaLang/www.julialang.org/issues/115.

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Re:Julia 1.0 by ChrisRackauckas on Thursday August 09, 2018 @12:35PM (#17725726)
Oh I thought the first tab had code and the complaint was it was too low. I guess that was a prototype build of the site. Yeah we should get that back.
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Re:Julia 1.0 by essenciary on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @03:08AM (#17756077)
Yeah, there is code set up in the page to add a code sample for each tab in the ecosystem. It's a matter of content (adding it).
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Re:Julia 1.0 by celrod on Thursday August 09, 2018 @03:02PM (#17727370)
Racket sounds like a really exciting language, but every time I look at some code...
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Re:Julia 1.0 by 3rdAccount on Thursday August 09, 2018 @06:50PM (#17729236)
Racket is having its runtime replaced with the now open-source chez scheme, so it should get faster (my limited understanding) even though it is already faster than a lot of dynamic languages.

Lisp languages do take a long time to get used to.

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