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Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by romantype on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @02:06PM (#19972915)
Do you now find that doing both the prototype and full implementation in Julia the better option?

Sorry, couldn't figure this out from your comment whether you prefer Julia or some other language for doing the prototype and full implementation. If you can clarify this explicity, it would be helpful.

Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by eigenspace on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @02:23PM (#19973133)
Apologies for the lack of clarity. Yes, I find I really like using Julia from start to finish and really admire that I can do so without compromise.

I find this approach to be straight up superior to the usual pattern where one starts out in a slow dynamic language to build the prototype and then either replaces certain functions with interop calls to a fast language (losing all the features that brought you to your dynamic language in the first place!) or straight up replacing your entire prototype with a production version written in your fast language and providing bindings to your slow language.