The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language

Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by kortex on Saturday October 10, 2020 @12:58AM (#24736780)

Edit: just learned about OffsetArrays.jl - ok now that's really cool. Keeping comment for context.

> - Arrays start at one

Oof. Big turnoff for me. For some reason, this particular context switch really grinds my gears. All languages I use (except bash, which grinds my gears) use Dijkstra-style array slices: python, go, c/++, js. I'm sure it makes it easier for Matlab converts.

This, plus the mentioned weaknesses with libs like http, grpc et al, IMHO will relegate Julia to many years of just being wrapped by other languages. To avoid that, I think they should be thinking about continuing to woo more of the engineering crowd - which to their credit I think they've done pretty well so far.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...

https://github.com/JuliaArrays/OffsetArrays.jl

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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by FranzFerdiNaN on Saturday October 10, 2020 @02:53AM (#24737116)

They’re making the language mostly for statisticians, mathematicians and scientific programmers, where it makes sense to have arrays start at 1. Why should they cater to whiny engineers who can’t deal with anything they aren’t used to?

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