JuliaCon 2019 Videos

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Post by FranzFerdiNaN » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 2:22 PM UTC

JuliaCon 2019 Videos
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Re: JuliaCon 2019 Videos

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Post by eigenspace » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 2:56 PM UTC

I was unfortunately unable to attend, but I really appreciate how many talks were recorded for YouTube. Really great to see all the cool stuff people are working on.

Re: JuliaCon 2019 Videos

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Post by eigenspace » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 3:52 PM UTC

If anyone is looking for video recommendations to get started: here’s a couple that I thought were great and should be interesting and approachable to just about anyone.

Steven G. Johnson’s keynote address. It’s longer format but really interesting, informative, entertaining and well delivered. The main topic is metaprogramming. https://youtu.be/mSgXWpvQEHE

Stefan Karpinski’s talk on the unreasonable effectiveness of multiple dispatch. He discusses the fact that Julia has such dramatic code re-use and sharing between libraries and he discusses some reasons why he thinks multiple dispatch is uniquely able to offer this. https://youtu.be/kc9HwsxE1OY

Re: JuliaCon 2019 Videos

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Post by fc_barnes » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 4:36 PM UTC

I'm glad Julia is continuing to make progress. There's certainly a learning curve but that's how it goes with these powerful languages. I believe it's inherently superior to the competition, and as long as the rough spots continue to get filed down and the community remains engaged and willing to help newcomers, it will meet with ultimate success.

Re: JuliaCon 2019 Videos

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Post by Merrill » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 4:37 PM UTC

Julia: come for the syntax, stay for the speed

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02310-3

Re: JuliaCon 2019 Videos

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Post by elcomet » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 4:48 PM UTC

Merrill wrote: post #5

Julia: come for the syntax, stay for the speed https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02310-3

I came for the speed, and I left because of the speed. It's impressive how the interpreter is slow to start..

Re: JuliaCon 2019 Videos

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Post by ddragon » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 4:55 PM UTC

elcomet wrote: post #6

Merrill wrote: post #5

Julia: come for the syntax, stay for the speed https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02310-3

I came for the speed, and I left because of the speed. It's impressive how the interpreter is slow to start..

That's mostly because Julia doesn't have yet an interpreter (outside of the debugger), only a JIT compiler. Thankfully the "time to first plot" is the new priority for the compiler team since the multithreading is already working.

Re: JuliaCon 2019 Videos

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Post by xvilka » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 4:56 PM UTC

I hope LibreOffice will consider[1] to support Julia in Calc too, along with the current Python support.

[1] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728

Re: JuliaCon 2019 Videos

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Post by BubRoss » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:02 PM UTC

ddragon wrote: post #7

elcomet wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I came for the speed, and I left because of the speed. It's impressive how the interpreter is slow to start..

That's mostly because Julia doesn't have yet an interpreter (outside of the debugger), only a JIT compiler. Thankfully the "time to first plot" is the new priority for the compiler team since the multithreading is already working.

I hope it goes well, this has been a common complaint for half a decade now.

Re: JuliaCon 2019 Videos

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Post by reikonomusha » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:17 PM UTC

ddragon wrote: post #7

elcomet wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I came for the speed, and I left because of the speed. It's impressive how the interpreter is slow to start..

That's mostly because Julia doesn't have yet an interpreter (outside of the debugger), only a JIT compiler. Thankfully the "time to first plot" is the new priority for the compiler team since the multithreading is already working.

Most Common Lisp compilers survive well with incremental compilation. Build-times and development are very fast, with no interpreter in sight.