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Re:Julia Computing raises $24M Series A by krastanov on Monday July 19, 2021 @12:21PM (#27884351)
There is another important niche I am particularly excited about: programming language research geeks and lisp geeks. The pervasive multiple-dispatch in Julia provides such a beautiful way to architecture a complicated piece of code.
Re:Julia Computing raises $24M Series A by vletal on Monday July 19, 2021 @12:58PM (#27884833)
> The pervasive multiple-dispatch in Julia provides such a beautiful way to architecture a complicated piece of code.

On the other hand it makes function discovery almost impossible [1]. Combined with the way how 'using' keyword exports a predefined subset of functions, this makes the language doomed from larger adoption outside of academia at least as long as there is no superb autocompletion and IDE support.

[1] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/my-mental-load-using-julia...

Re:Julia Computing raises $24M Series A by mccoyb on Monday July 19, 2021 @01:03PM (#27884891)
Have you seen Shuhei Kadowaki's work on JET.jl (?)

If you're curious: https://github.com/aviatesk/JET.jl

This may seem more about performance (than IDE development) but Shuhei is one of the driving contributors behind developing the capabilities to use compiler capabilities for IDE integration -- and indeed JET.jl contains the kernel of a number of these capabilities.

Re:Julia Computing raises $24M Series A by pjmlp on Monday July 19, 2021 @12:55PM (#27884794)
Yep, that is my niche.
Re:Julia Computing raises $24M Series A by ampdepolymerase on Monday July 19, 2021 @12:54PM (#27884772)
Those two niches don't pay. They are effectively useless outside of the occasional evangelism on HN.
Re:Julia Computing raises $24M Series A by pjmlp on Monday July 19, 2021 @12:57PM (#27884812)
Who do you think puts money to action on LLVM, GCC, Swift, Rust, .NET (C#, F#, VB), Scala,....?
Re:Julia Computing raises $24M Series A by UncleOxidant on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:41PM (#27885927)
There's a Compiler and Runtime Engineer position listed at https://juliacomputing.com/jobs/ which presumably pays money.
Re:Julia Computing raises $24M Series A by trenchgun on Monday July 19, 2021 @01:04PM (#27884897)
Money does not create code, humans do.
Re:Julia Computing raises $24M Series A by xiaodai on Monday July 19, 2021 @11:33PM (#27889799)
Money don't do jobs, humans do.

You see the logical fallacy in ur argument now?