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Re:JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming L... by tgflynn on Monday February 10, 2020 @02:44PM (#22292484)
Perhaps. The feeling I get with Julia is that the devs are sort of making it up as they go along. I don't mean just making up the language (which of course they're doing), but making up whole new approaches to programming that aren't necessarily well-understood and tested in the real world and certainly aren't very familiar to most programmers.

Maybe in the end they will succeed and will invent a generally superior approach to software development. But for the moment it all feels very experimental and so not a language I'd want to commit to at present if I were starting a major, non-solo project.

Re:JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming L... by chalst on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:36PM (#22292985)
A lot of the ideas come from Common Lisp.