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I think Julia might maybe have a shot at the space Matlab plays in the moment. But I'd define that more as scientific computing than data science.
Does Julia even have a properly supported HBase interface? People are confused about how to connect to SQL Server[1] - until some pretty basic things like that are sorted out I don't think anyone will take it seriously for data science.
Also: http://danluu.com/julialang/
[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/BOeyuSlz...
That may be a view through the distorted HN lenses. Spend some time on Lambda the Ultimate and you'll think imperative programming is dying. Go is new and has lots of issues. It's annoying on many fronts and badly needs improvements in packaging area. It's good for some things and worse for others. JS is for frontend, because it's the only supported language. (although there are python-to-js compilers available if yo…
Reasonable Python is much younger than that. (Only fair, if you make an adjustment for reasonable js.)
Machine learning also, at least from my academic view, seems to be dominated by C++/Matlab/Java/Python (and things seem to be moving to Python).
But more broadly, you'll have to learn dozens of languages as a programmer anyways. I wouldn't get too caught up in Python vs. other things.
Julia for Data Science? Ha! I think Julia might maybe have a shot at the space Matlab plays in the moment. But I'd define that more as scientific computing than data science. Does Julia even have a properly supported HBase interface? People are confused about how to connect to SQL Server [1] - until some pretty basic things like that are sorted out I don't think anyone will take it seriously for data science. Also: h…
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One of my favorite pieces of code I've written is a 150 line Python script I made to solve a really ugly text processing problem. I have tried to use it as a code sample when talking to potential employers, but it backfires because it makes the original problem look so simple that they wonder why I bothered to send it.
Maybe you should try a reverse interview process. Send them the original problem, ask them to have one of their top developers solve it, and then compare solutions.
http://www.simplyhired.com/search?q=python Showing 1-10 of 169,970 Python jobs http://www.simplyhired.com/search?q=ruby Showing 1-10 of 128,305 Ruby jobs http://www.simplyhired.com/search?q=java Showing 1-10 of 190,126 Java jobs http://www.simplyhired.com/search?q=golang Showing 1-10 of 219 Golang jobs http://www.simplyhired.com/search?q=julia Showing 1-10 of 206 Julia jobs http://www.simplyhired.com/search?q=%22pyth…
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Your snark was somewhat incoherent. Can you be more clear? guessing from the cpan in your name you're a Perl person?
It was coherent and I would not define it as snark. You don't comprehend his point yet you have the wherewithal to label it as incoherent & snarky -- that's snarky. But I digress.. Python users had a choice to stay in 2.7 land or make changes to their codebase for not much in return. Many chose to stay in 2.7 land, which you could safely say is stagnant. As a result, if you can't keep moving with Python, where will y…