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Re:Julia v1.3 by socialdemocrat on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @06:30AM (#21637368)
You can ;-) The secret sauce in Julia is to use Revise.jl package. Is makes your life so much better. It observes source code changes while you are at the REPL. No need to restart everything.
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Re:Julia v1.3 by jjoonathan on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:24AM (#21638490)
How reliable is Revise.jl compared to ipython autoreload? My experience with ipython autoreload is... very poor, even though some people swear by it, so I have trust issues with this type of thing.
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Re:Julia v1.3 by montalbano on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:43AM (#21638619)
I use it extensively. In my experience it is very reliable. Onle once or twice in two years of using it has something strange happened with JIT compilation of functions. All I had to do to fix was restart the Julia REPL and load things in again.
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Re:Julia v1.3 by ashton314 on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @08:06AM (#21637895)
+1 for this package. Total game changer.
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Re:Julia v1.3 by oxinabox on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @02:36PM (#21641809)
One downside is Revise v2 actually itself has a fairly high startup cost. Best alternative is to pin it to Revise v1.

I personsally don't mind the startup too much. But I do get where people are coming from

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