Re:Julia 1.0
by mlthoughts2018 on Thursday August 09, 2018 @02:26PM
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I think one of my points is that what you call a “tacked on hodge podge” is actually a desirable trait, isolated and targeted optimization of only subcomponents. This is preferred to working a language where the whole thing inhabits that same space.
With some persistence Python-Cython-Numba can get the work done, but to me it has never felt like a consistent whole, usually a tagged on hodge podge. Numba is cherry picky on what it will and will not optimize, I totally understand why it is so. It has always been a 'will it or wont it" with Numba.
I think the potential that Julia offers that Cython and Numba doesnt is the option of a programmable syntax for the low level manipulation. Cython has improved, but for the longest time it was always a forced decision between operating at a the higher level of array/sub-array manipulation in Python or down to tedious index manipulation in Cython with nothing in between. Not to mention fighting the Cython compiler and Python's C API to get the 'yellows' out.