Re:The State of Fortran
by leephillips on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @10:25PM
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Yeah. Of course there are bugs, but none of them are serious. Julia is still a young language, but it’s rock solid and used in high stakes, high performance computing in industry, government, and academia. Like I said, there are only four high-level languages that can perform at this level. Julia is certainly the most advanced and interesting of these, and, yes, it’s just a lot of fun to use.
> I sometimes wish [Julia] had just appeared one day as version 1, and made periodic updates every year or three.
> Its “multi-paradigm” nature. Yeah, I know other languages have this too, but it does tend to bloat a language.
And some are just funny:
> The language is not stable, and by that I mean it seems to have a lot of bugs [links to github issues with label:bug]. You can’t really call something that has bugs stable.