JuliaMono – a monospaced font for scientific and technical computing

Re:JuliaMono – a monospaced font for scientific and technica... by jcelerier on Saturday October 10, 2020 @04:45AM (#24737550)

This opinion most likely depends of your field and day job.

When I was at the university, most of the software written here was single purpose, rarely more than a couple thousand lines - you've got the time to actually think about every step of the few algorithms that'll be in there.

My last freelance gig was about delving and fixing performance bugs in a multi-million-line codebase that I'd never seen before, in a few days' time. There is absolutely no time to stop and think about ⊗ vs ⊛ in that case.

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Re:JuliaMono – a monospaced font for scientific and technica... by akjssdk on Saturday October 10, 2020 @08:31AM (#24738506)

Note that this is the main use case of Julia code: relatively short academic code, where more thought goes into coming up with the equations than with the code itself. For me it is not uncommon to spend a week doing the full derivativation of a formula, which is basically a one liner in code.

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Re:JuliaMono – a monospaced font for scientific and technica... by djaque on Saturday October 10, 2020 @12:52PM (#24740196)

Not at a week yet, but all of my time is spent on derivations and then translating them to code too.

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