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Re:Incrementally migrating over one million lines of code fr... by setr on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @10:25PM (#19102742)
Stabilization and proliferation of libraries; afaik its ecosystem is currently only really fulfilled for numpy/scipy/ml workloads
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Re:Incrementally migrating over one million lines of code fr... by happy_man on Thursday February 07, 2019 @01:09AM (#19103386)
Seems Julia developers and evangelists main objective is to "kill Python", am I wrong?
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Re:Incrementally migrating over one million lines of code fr... by setr on Thursday February 07, 2019 @02:41AM (#19103696)
They can have whatever goals they wish, but regardless, having an ecosystem like .net or python requires a critical mass of users; and once you have that, the language goals don’t even matter; they’ll just have libraries for everything, whether they like it or not.
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