Julia 1.0

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Post by montalbano » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 12:04 PM UTC

Julia 1.0
julialang.org

Re: Julia 1.0

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Post by montalbano » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 12:08 PM UTC

Some discussion from yesterdays (slightly premature) HN post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17719489

Re: Julia 1.0

#3

Post by multiply » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 12:25 PM UTC

Wonderful! The one untold story is the more I use it the better the programmer I become. It is so easy to benchmark and profile code. It has a great community that will help you how to write high performance code. Congrats!

Re: Julia 1.0

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Post by ai_ia » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 12:36 PM UTC

multiply wrote: post #3

Wonderful! The one untold story is the more I use it the better the programmer I become. It is so easy to benchmark and profile code. It has a great community that will help you how to write high performance code. Congrats!

I really hope for Julia to become mainstream and maybe replace Python as the defacto lang for data science. Julia is an incredible language. Kudos to the team developing it.

Re: Julia 1.0

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Post by DarkWiiPlayer » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 12:42 PM UTC

Julia is one of the few languages that doesn't make me think "I'd rather be doing this in Lua instead" every 5 minutes

Re: Julia 1.0

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Post by continuational » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 12:46 PM UTC

Apart from the library ecosystem, what attracts you to Julia?

Re: Julia 1.0

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Post by stabbles » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 12:46 PM UTC

Julia is such a delightful language! It allows rapid prototyping and at the same time it runs fast. It has a great REPL, package manager and workflow with Revise.jl.

Re: Julia 1.0

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Post by enitihas » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 12:48 PM UTC

continuational wrote: post #6

Apart from the library ecosystem, what attracts you to Julia?

Raw speed. Although julia has several nice features (multiple dynamic dispatch, macros), the raw speed obtained by annotating code with types is mind blowing. You can for the most part write like python, then annotate the slowest parts with types. It works really well.

Re: Julia 1.0

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Post by wbhart » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 12:48 PM UTC

It may be a tiny thing, but I'm still amazed at how fast the new REPL starts up, and how quick the package manager is, compared to what was there before. Congrats!

Re: Julia 1.0

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Post by bagsvaerd70 » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 12:52 PM UTC

It's a simple and extremely powerful language.

Very few pieces of software combine simplicity and power. I'm very excited.

It'd be great if Julia devs could help deploying Julia Pkgs on Nix, now that Julia is getting ready for prime time and Nix is steadily gaining more and more users: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/20649