Some fun with π in Julia

Genuine question, As a professional developer, why would you restrict yourself to such technology? what we should be asking here is why? give me one scenario where this language is more appropriate than the plethora of other domain specific languages. would you bet your company on such language when there is more mature languages already ?

Re: Some fun with π in Julia

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Post by mastax » Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 3:46 PM UTC

I have always been skeptical about 'scientific' languages. Why do you need a special language when any general language + some libraries will do? This is a good example of a feature that only really makes sense in a scientific language.

Re: Some fun with π in Julia

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Post by stimj » Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 3:50 PM UTC

throwme_1980 wrote: post #5

Genuine question, As a professional developer, why would you restrict yourself to such technology? what we should be asking here is why? give me one scenario where this language is more appropriate than the plethora of other domain specific languages. would you bet your company on such language when there is more mature languages already ?

I think one of the strengths of this approach is easily implementing numerical methods/approaches from papers and having it just work. If you work in academia or in an R&D field, this is valuable. I don't think Julia is presently positioning itself to be the core language a company's product is based on.

Re: Some fun with π in Julia

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 3:50 PM UTC

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Re: Some fun with π in Julia

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Post by stimj » Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 3:51 PM UTC

tempodox wrote: post #4

spraak wrote: post #3

Julia all the things!

I wish! It breaks my heart that this language doesn't produce standalone binary executables.

There are ways: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36815324/produce-a-standa...

Re: Some fun with π in Julia

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Post by rrock » Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 4:00 PM UTC

mastax wrote: post #6

I have always been skeptical about 'scientific' languages. Why do you need a special language when any general language + some libraries will do? This is a good example of a feature that only really makes sense in a scientific language.

As a scientist, it's nice to have an option where I can easily espress my problem, and get a speedy solution at the end. Julia hits this sweet spot.

I translated some of my code from one of those general purpose languages to Julia 0.2, years ago. It was both more readable, and 20x faster. Never looked back.