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Strange that neither the journalist or the Times folks reference the BBC show "Only Connect"[1] which has had this game for years. That show, BTW, is highly recommended if you haven't seen it. Their pitch is that it is "Deliciously devious and maddeningly abstract"!

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lskhg

Yes, the Julia ecosystem provides cross compiled binaries for many platforms

https://docs.juliahub.com/GTK4_jll/XRLGj/4.10.5+0/#Platforms

Direct link to Juliacon event page: https://juliacon.org

It can also show you assembly at the function level:

   julia> a=1+2im; b=2+4im; @code_native a+b
           .text
   ; ┌ @ complex.jl:271 within `+'
           pushq   %rbp
           movq    %rsp, %rbp
   ; │ @ complex.jl:271 within `+' @ int.jl:53
           vmovdqu (%r8), %xmm0
           vpaddq  (%rdx), %xmm0, %xmm0
   ; │ @ complex.jl:271 within `+'
           vmovdqu %xmm0, (%rcx)
           movq    %rcx, %rax
           popq    %rbp
           retq
           nopw    %cs:(%rax,%rax)
   ; └

There a great Asimov story on these lines. Its called 'The fun they had'. Highly recommended. I read it aeons ago as a kid, and its stuck with me ever since.

That's not the founding team, that's the current executive team -- who are getting a "retention bonus". All the founding team seem to have left the company (but presumably still hold shares)

Couldn't agree more. I was sending a couple of thousand emails a month with mandrill for free. Would have happily paid 9.95 a month. But when I got their email, and read their blogpost, it was completely unclear what I had to pay. The message I got from them was, "sorry, don't want your business."

With this, and Kimono, in one week, I am moving to amamzon ses, though it has very few reporting features. Sorry Sendgrid/Mailgun, but TWICE burnt, and all that...

This is really bad news for us, and the tone of the announcement grated. Two weeks notice is very bad form, I'm having to come back from vacation to fix this.

When we evaluated options a year ago, kimono was the best fit. We'd happily have paid, and did ask. I don't understand what happened... Did they run out of funding?

I've wanted something like this for years, I can easily see why this is awsome. I considered the Echo seriously when it came out. However, even as an Amazon Prime member, I'm hesitant to have amazon in my living room. I don't want to tie that deeply into a single ecosystem. Therefore, I am eagerly waiting for my Mycroft[1]... One for every room! If your are willing to muck about with hardware, the Jasper project does a lot of this already.

[1] https://mycroft.ai/

We played around with what I believe was a prototype version of this at the BBC stall at last summer's Edinburgh festival. The kid loved it.

This is of course nothing like the RPi. You board has a grid of LEDs that you can control by uploading a program which you write on a regular PC. When we tried it, we were coding in a Scratch like environment.

Well, that is just one way of doing it. As other commenters say below, julia decouples the concepts of namespaces, and files. Which means there are many ways of organising your code.

You're right in that most projects include files into one large modules. Not every body like a it, but it does work for many codebases.

If you want however, nothing prevents you from having separate modules per files.You could also create hierarchical modules, and store the files in a matching heirarchy of directories.

As a young language, some programming patterns are still being experimented on by the purveyors of the language. But I don't think the module system is fundamentally weak in this respect.

Of course this article is a lot of hyperbole, and whether you agree or not depends on your worldview. But one bit I couldn't agree more. Uber and Lyft are NOT examples of the sharing economy. Just adding an element of technology to good old fashioned capitalism does not a sharing economy make.

There's a video a trailer to the event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hgw9RVwbaw

That text is written from the point of view of 'neubot', so its not 'man'-ual.

Many of the Strongtalk team went over to write the Java VM at Sun. So Hotspot owes a great deal to Strongtalk.

The divisor should probably be the total installed base, i.e. all active iPhones in use, rather than one year's sales.

From the documents, it appears that the holder has the option to get money back, or shares in the event of a merger/acquisition. They also have priority rights over shareholders in the event of a dissolution.

So no, they DO derive economic benefits, but it may be a long time coming.

[Edit: this is almost the same as convertible notes. The only difference is that as a debt holder they may be able to force a resolution at maturity, but that is usually to the detriment of the company. But as the preamble says, most angel/VC investors dont actually want to be a debtholder"

The intrinsic value of paper currency, I suppose comes from the promise of the central bank to pay its value on demand. In the 'good old days' this was a promise to pay its value in gold, but now its in the settlement of your debt. In Bitcoin that promise is peer-to-peer. Whether that makes it a successful currency is a fascinating, but open, question.

While the focus of many of its contributors remain scientific computing, and its use in academia is growing, the language in itself is very amenable towards more mainstream programming. For example, there are packages (at varying level of maturity) for HTTP Servers, HTTP middleware, templating with Mustache, Redis, database access, Logging etc. So I'd say, the language itself is very suitable for mainstream programming, and the library ecosystem around it is growing and maturing quite well for such a young language.

There is also a great interface to Python, giving you access to the wide range of its libraries.