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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by vsskanth on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:28AM (#24730218)
I'm an engineer who writes the occasional matlab/python code to automate tasks, process data and fit models. Numerical libraries are extremely important to me.

I recently started using Julia for simulating/fitting some differential equations and am thoroughly impressed with the speed, syntax and library documentation. Startup speed was initially painful but I am used to it now since I only pay it once.

The IDE situation is not fully stable yet but Juno is very good. I wish they package a standalone Julia IDE (I am aware of the new VS Code plugin) based on either Atom or Code just to make it easier for those switching over from MATLAB and Python (Spyder) IDEs.

Don't know how far they've progressed on static compilation yet, but if they get that even for a language subset it would truly be a game changer for general purpose programming.

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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by 3JPLW on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:31AM (#24730242)
> I wish they package a standalone Julia IDE

That's precisely what Julia Computing's JuliaPro is. https://juliacomputing.com/products/juliapro

(Full disclosure, I am employed by Julia Computing)

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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by LittlePeter on Friday October 09, 2020 @11:05AM (#24730562)
From a quick glance on the web page I cannot tell what JuliaPro now really is.

"Fastest on-ramp"? What is that?

What I would want to see in first 3 seconds is something like "JuiaPro is a subscription service giving you access to curated packages"... You know something "tangible"... Maybe it's just me being lazy...

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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by KenoFischer on Friday October 09, 2020 @11:12AM (#24730639)
Yeah, fair enough. I've filed an issue internally against the website copy. It should definitely tell you what it is above the fold.
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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by vsskanth on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:43AM (#24730352)
Thank you. I thought this was some paid enterprise product. Didn't realize there was a free version.

It looks like I have to sign-in to download but can't find a link anywhere to create an account, either on the homepage or anywhere else on juliacomputing.com.

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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by pbowyer on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:55AM (#24730473)
Here's the register with email link: https://auth.juliahub.com/register.html
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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by vsskanth on Friday October 09, 2020 @11:16AM (#24730676)
thanks!
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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by ViralBShah on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:37AM (#24730300)
Static compilation works - see PackageCompiler.jl.
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