Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software

Re:Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize f... by you_owe_me on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:17AM (#18978800)

The authors claim Julia is a general programming language, but after a few tries I am not totally sure about that. Yes, it's a nice programming language for scientific computing but I am afraid its usefulness stops there.

Matlab is (was?) the default tool for computational science, and Julia borrows lots from it. I'd say it's safe to put Julia in the same category with Matlab and Mathematica

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Re:Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize f... by montalbano on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:24AM (#18978881)

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/not-only-for-technical-com...

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Re:Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize f... by h8hawk on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:09AM (#18979437)

People are using Javascript or python for real production. How those are general purpose and Julia is not?

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Re:Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize f... by krull10 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:25AM (#18978898)

What about the Julia 1.0 language design do you find prevents general purpose programming?

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Re:Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize f... by xiaodai on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:51PM (#18985303)

I think he's just trolling...

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Re:Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize f... by xiaodai on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:52PM (#18985309)

Conceivably you can see a backen server being built in Julia e.g. https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Mux.jl

But I can't imagine anyone would choose Matlab or Mathematica to build a backend...

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Re:Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize f... by Recurecur on Thursday January 24, 2019 @08:56AM (#18988659)

>Conceivably you can see a backen server being built in Julia e.g. https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Mux.jl

>But I can't imagine anyone would choose Matlab or Mathematica to build a backend...

Julia is a clean, concise language that has so far mainly been focused on numerics. People are looking at using it in many other areas, for instance real-time robotic control: http://www.juliarobotics.org/

This means that at least some Julia folk are looking at ways of avoiding garbage collection during critical code sections...

Data center efficiency is a concern, and there is real interest in better languages for web applications. Rust and Swift both have projects exploring this area. Julia would fit well in that space, and in my opinion its syntax is much cleaner than either.

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