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Re:Why Julia by IshKebab on Saturday February 23, 2019 @01:06PM (#19234580)
First of all that is ridiculously slow. Secondly, unlike Matlab you don't have everything you need available after starting the REPL. For instance if you want to plot something you might run `using Gadfly`. How long does that take?

16 seconds. Sixteen seconds. For real. This is not usable.

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Re:Why Julia by agumonkey on Saturday February 23, 2019 @01:25PM (#19234709)
Hold on how long is MATLAB boot ?
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Re:Why Julia by enriquto on Saturday February 23, 2019 @01:31PM (#19234741)
maybe he was thiking about Octave, that is an interpreter for the same language as Matlab and it starts much faster.
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Re:Why Julia by dnautics on Sunday February 24, 2019 @11:37AM (#19239221)
Yeah but heaven help you if you need nested for loops in octave.
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Re:Why Julia by IshKebab on Sunday February 24, 2019 @12:54PM (#19239631)
Much less than 16 seconds. And that gives you a whole IDE.
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