Re:Why Julia
by m4x on Sunday February 24, 2019 @04:27PM
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I think multiple dispatch will scale perfectly fine for large projects when it has better IDE support.
There's no reason Juno or any other IDE couldn't display the output of a static analyser inline, or allow you to command-click a function call to go to the site of the exact function being called, or show a list of alternatives, and so on.
Give Julia and its IDEs a few years to improve and you might find it much better suited to large projects. I wouldn't consider Java any good for large projects either, if it didn't have the excellent IDE support it now enjoys.
There's no reason Juno or any other IDE couldn't display the output of a static analyser inline, or allow you to command-click a function call to go to the site of the exact function being called, or show a list of alternatives, and so on.
Give Julia and its IDEs a few years to improve and you might find it much better suited to large projects. I wouldn't consider Java any good for large projects either, if it didn't have the excellent IDE support it now enjoys.