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Re:R Passes SAS, but Python Leaves Them Both Behind on Monday March 06, 2017 @12:17PM (#13804155)
Right, It can currently precompile to some extent, but full source-to-binary-blob-compilation is on the roadmap. See here: http://juliacomputing.com/blog/2016/02/09/static-julia.html

Julia's runtime includes its compiler and full huge standard lib, but of which are eventually going to be split off, IIUC.

The former because of static compilation potential and the latter into modules that can be included piecemeal.

Re:PyTorch – Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @03:23PM (#13429960)
Here is an emerging julia alternative http://www.breloff.com/transformations/
Julia is a general purpose language
Re:Grumpy: Go running Python on Thursday January 05, 2017 @01:21PM (#13329759)
Actually, they said they would keep programming in python.
Re:Grumpy: Go running Python on Thursday January 05, 2017 @01:19PM (#13329732)
Will you continue maintenance on this indefinitely (barring orders from higher up) or is this meant for a one shot translate and dump?
Re:Grumpy: Go running Python on Thursday January 05, 2017 @01:18PM (#13329721)
Lead on the project said he would like to support python 3 at some point.
Re:Grumpy: Go running Python on Thursday January 05, 2017 @12:55PM (#13329492)
What python 3 features are painful and why?
Re:Grumpy: Go running Python on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @07:48PM (#13323700)
Awesome!
Re:Grumpy: Go running Python on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @02:47PM (#13321427)
I"m also curious about this
Re:Grumpy: Go running Python on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @02:08PM (#13321107)
Have you thought about using type hints to help type inference?

Some work on that is discussed here. I would love a dropbox google colab (though also targeting 3.x :) )

https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/1862

Re:Why I'm Making Python 2.8 on Saturday December 10, 2016 @08:26PM (#13149051)
What's wrong with Julia? 1.0 should be coming out in a bit less than a year.