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Re:What's Great about Julia? by lmm on Thursday December 08, 2022 @12:57AM (#33904702)
> I'm sure people will become more critical of Julia if it successfully becomes the de facto for those things but there's a big difference in that Julia is very focused on those things whereas Python is trying to be as general purpose as possible

I see that as more of a point in Python's favour than Julia's. IME languages that are designed as general-purpose languages tend to be better than languages that are designed for niche purposes, even within those niches. The things that make a language good require consistent, general thinking.

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Re:What's Great about Julia? by culi on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:10AM (#33909489)
Right but Julia is specifically built against the criticisms made about Python in those spaces. All I'm saying is within that space there's gonna be less to critique
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Re:What's Great about Julia? by NicolasL-S on Friday December 09, 2022 @11:33PM (#33929876)
> IME languages that are designed as general-purpose languages tend to be better than languages that are designed for niche purposes, even within those niches. The things that make a language good require consistent, general thinking.

Julia is a general purpose language, while being the best tool for scientific computing.

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Re:What's Great about Julia? by lmm on Sunday December 11, 2022 @05:21PM (#33948219)
As a general purpose language it seems very limited/immature, if you look at trying to run e.g. a http server in it.
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