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Re:Julia: Dynamism and Performance Reconciled by Design (2018) by jjoonathan on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:47PM (#24901880)
Ditto.

I can't wait for Julia to murder Python but before it can do that it needs to push all delays out of the interactive parts (to include both REPL and cold launch) and into the package management parts, where people will tolerate delays. Anaconda decided to stick a full SAT solver into the package management and it's every bit the shitshow that you'd expect, frequently taking 30 minutes to solve and failing to converge, but people tolerate it because it's in the package management.

Re:Julia: Dynamism and Performance Reconciled by Design (2018) by attractivechaos on Monday October 26, 2020 @06:11PM (#24902106)
I have been using anaconda much less often due to its long resolving time... That said, I fully agree with you that Julia should cache precompiled binaries. Lacking this key functionality is a misstep from the very beginning.