Julia 1.0 - Hackdot

Re:Julia 1.0 by Certhas on Friday August 10, 2018 @06:43PM (#17737225)

Well I'm not a grad student, but my grad students were happy to switch, too. :) I think you are ignoring the structural reasons why Python has to lead to silos, and that these reasons are addressed in Julia. But in the end, time will tell.

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Re:Julia 1.0 by marmaduke on Saturday August 11, 2018 @02:24AM (#17738623)

I’m not ignoring anything, but trying to evaluate whether Julia will be worth supporting as the N+1 scientific stack in the lab I work for, and what to recommend to incoming students and people who consider getting off of MATLAB.

I think Julia looks very sexy and students jump on that, often without considering whether they will be their actual work done or spend time porting libs or debugging things I can’t help them with.

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Re:Julia 1.0 by Certhas on Saturday August 11, 2018 @04:33AM (#17738904)

I was worried about the same. I think it's a valid reason to sit back and wait. Especially if Numba works for you.

I was also and continue to be worried about the tooling, the lack of good tutorials and especially the Type driven system. I like it so far but Object Oriented is a lot more familiar to many people. The library situation for me specifically has tipped to be a net positive. I also could transition my very small team off Python completely.

So it was not an ad hoc decision, I tried it several times over the last year's and decided it's not there. In my specific situation, with a rewrite of a core library coming up and the library situation being there that changed early this year.

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