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Julia is another contender. Julia code can be as performant as C++ code, but Julia code may be even more elegant than C++. Even without accounting for Julia's metaprogramming featu…

Yeah, double-word floating-point loses many of the desirable properties of the usual floating-point.

> Number isn’t an interface—there are no operations common to all numbers. When creating a new type, it should be more clear cut when is subtyping Number (or Real, etc.) valid. Sho…

I don't think testing against every existing dependent would make sense currently. The issue is the lack of tooling for mechanically checking whether the dependent accesses impleme…

What I wanted to say is that I'm skeptical regarding "interfaces", either as a language feature or as a package. Although TBH I have not yet given any specific "interfaces" design …

> the culture of not prioritizing correctness in computation On the contrary, it is my impression the experienced Julia programmers, including those involved in JuliaLang/julia, ta…

The Julia world is already quite careful with testing and CI. Apart from the usual unit testing, many packages do employ integration testing. The Julia project itself (compiler, et…

Julia is not without warts, but this blog post is kinda rubbish. The post claims vague but scary "correctness issues", trying to support this with a collection of unrelated issue t…

> it is plausible that ChatGPT can get to a state where it can act as a good therapist Be careful with that thought, it's a trap people have been falling into since the sixties: ht…

Julia does this for parametric types, too.

> whiffed a few major decisions early on Anything particular in mind?

> Recompiling everything every time. > recompilation on every run breaks this Your comment is exceedingly misleading. Whether and when Julia code gets compiled is up to the user.

> Pkg.jl is also not great, version compatibility is kind of tacked on and has odd behavior. Huh? I think Pkg is very good as far as package managers go, exceptionally so. What spe…

Pratt's method only targets the operator precedence languages, not the DCFL. So much less powerful than LR parsing.

Is Trump not supposed to be tough-on-crime? How does pardoning a drug dealer factor into that? Is Trump against the war on drugs?

Ireland giving special benefits to a private company like Apple conflicts with the principles of a free and fair market.

Lousy high school.

> [...] there's progress [...] Don't forget about Julia!

Abstract interpretation is important in the implementation of the Julia language. Some relevant blog posts by Julia compiler developers: * https://info.juliahub.com/blog/inference-…

Wikipedia page on worker's self-management: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_self-management

The title doesn't conform to the HN guidelines, dang.