Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later

Re:Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later by huijzer on Monday February 14, 2022 @04:28PM (#30338606)

> But the REPL lacks the ability to redefine structs on the go (which I can understand as it'd be tough to do, or simply not possible). But that, combined with the slow start up time makes life a bit harder than it should. Fortunately, one doesn't redefine its structs every day.

It is possible to redefine structs in Pluto.jl which is also a productivity booster overall due to its reactivity.

> For example, if you use the plots library, you'll have hard time finding a list of all possible plots (the documentation talks about lots of things, but strangely, not a list of possible charts).

The Makie.jl plotting library has really great docs nowadays: https://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/examples/plotting_functi...

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Re:Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later by teruakohatu on Monday February 14, 2022 @06:02PM (#30339642)

> The Makie.jl plotting library has really great docs nowadays

Even then it lacks geographical plots, and the GeoMakie.jl (part of the same ecosystem) documentation is limited.

https://juliaplots.org/GeoMakie.jl/stable/

I know, I know, I should contribute documentation.

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Re:Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later by adgjlsfhk1 on Monday February 14, 2022 @04:33PM (#30338682)

I really want revise to be able to be able to redefine structs as well. It would make package development a lot easier.

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Re:Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later by KenoFischer on Monday February 14, 2022 @04:37PM (#30338721)

I described what needs to happen in https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/40399, but so far nobody has had the time to implement it.

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