Re:Supercharged high-resolution ocean simulation with Jax
by adgjlsfhk1 on Monday December 06, 2021 @02:16AM
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I think Julia has a much better path to wide adoption for numerical computing/HPC. It is a much better language for package developers (you pretty much never have to go to a lower level language and everything can compose together with much less work). If you look at Julia and Python packages with similar functionality, the Julia one will typically be much more general and 1/10th the lines of code. This is a pretty powerful incentive for on-boarding package devs.
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Re:Supercharged high-resolution ocean simulation with Jax
by civilized on Monday December 06, 2021 @12:43PM
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I'm very excited about this, but my guess is it will take years for the packages to be so broadly and clearly superior that there's a mass migration to Julia. And even then people may prefer to just call Julia from a language they're more comfortable with. Still, it would be amazing for Julia to become the single go-to high-performance language of ML/DL/AI, advanced statistical modeling, HPC, etc.