Re:JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming L...
by CreRecombinase on Monday February 10, 2020 @12:47PM
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How much of the BioJulia stuff would you say currently works? It looks like a lot of repos have been created, and the scope is pretty impressive (looks like there are repos for everything from structural bioinformatics to population genetics), but a lot of them look to be basically empty(https://github.com/BioJulia/PopGen.jl), or have really scary looking issues:(e.g https://github.com/BioJulia/GeneticVariation.jl/issues/25).
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Re:JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming L...
by kescobo on Monday February 10, 2020 @01:59PM
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% of the repos in the org on github? That number is lower than I'd like. % of the repos that are actively maintained? Much higher.
One of the great things about julia is that it's really easy to throw together a package and register it. One of the bad things about julia is how easy it is for those one-off projects or idea dumps to pollute the space. We could definitely do a better job labeling the repos that are no longer being maintained or that aren't actually ready for prime time. There's a tradition in julia of a lot of really functional libraries to stay < v1.0, because we all take semver seriously, and if the interface is still in a bit of flux, making the switch to 1.0 is a big deal (DataFrames.jl, looking at you). But it does make it hard for new users to distinguish between a super robust package and someone's weekend hobby.
Re:JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming L...
by improbable22 on Monday February 10, 2020 @01:26PM
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Not my field, but at least some of it appears to be worked on seriously. This was an interesting recent blog post about making DNA-sequence processing go fast: