Surprised Rust was getting in the way (at least among the languages on that list), but it's awesome to hear how well Julia is doing.
Re:Julia's Release Process
by adamnemecek on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @12:45PM
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I'll use Rust eventually, but Rust is super nitpicky. Julia is less nitpicky. I think that Rust is the perfect language for shipping things, Julia is the perfect language for prototyping. Rust is better for systems, like asynchronous, must-be-correct systems. Julia is forgiving but I'm not sure I can ship SDKs/APIs in it.
> Rust is the perfect language for shipping things, Julia is the perfect language for prototyping.
You hit the nail on the head. This is exactly what I do in many of my workflows. Fortunately, Julia is so good on its own that I don't have to do this very often. I can't wait until static compilation is done!
I've tried doing these algorithms in other languages (Swift, Rust, C, Python), all of them were getting in the way. Julia is really liberating, I feel like I can concentrate on the hard parts as opposed to fighting the language.