Startups are building with the Julia Programming Language
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Re: Startups are building with the Julia Programming Language
#2If anyone from these startups is here on HN, I would love to hear your thoughts on the following:
1. How are you dealing with TTFX when deploying your code? If using PackageCompiler/StaticCompiler, is binary size an issue?
2. Are you using solely Julia, or a combination of Julia + other languages?
3. What unique value is Julia offering your startup that is difficult to find in other languages?
Re: Startups are building with the Julia Programming Language
#3My defunct startup Staffjoy operated from 2015 to 2017 and was an early production user of Julia. We open-sourced some of the code here: https://github.com/staffjoy
I haven't kept up with the ecosystem - I'm curious how things have improved in the last 5 year!
Re: Startups are building with the Julia Programming Language
#4My defunct startup Staffjoy operated from 2015 to 2017 and was an early production user of Julia. We open-sourced some of the code here: https://github.com/staffjoy I haven't kept up with the ecosystem - I'm curious how things have improved in the last 5 year!
Probably the most obvious improvements for most users are the big growth in the package ecosystem, with some science and math packages becoming the best available in any language (DifferentialEquations.jl, for example) and the drastic improvement in interactivity: the REPL starts instantly now, and most packages compile much faster. This will get even better in the next major release.
Re: Startups are building with the Julia Programming Language
#5If anyone from these startups is here on HN, I would love to hear your thoughts on the following: 1. How are you dealing with TTFX when deploying your code? If using PackageCompiler/StaticCompiler, is binary size an issue? 2. Are you using solely Julia, or a combination of Julia + other languages? 3. What unique value is Julia offering your startup that is difficult to find in other languages?
When I worked at Beacon biosignals briefly in 2020, they had Simon Danish (the creator of Makie there full time deploying plots/makie in the browser).
One point 2, you should check out Julius Tech which is bridging the multi language future using Julia through their graph computing tool. Other companies like RelationalAI are building on top of Julia but also have their own new language called Rel.
Re: Startups are building with the Julia Programming Language
#6If anyone from these startups is here on HN, I would love to hear your thoughts on the following: 1. How are you dealing with TTFX when deploying your code? If using PackageCompiler/StaticCompiler, is binary size an issue? 2. Are you using solely Julia, or a combination of Julia + other languages? 3. What unique value is Julia offering your startup that is difficult to find in other languages?
TTFX - the time-to-first whatever a package does most[0].
[0]:https://discourse.julialang.org/t/taking-ttfx-seriously-can-...
Re: Startups are building with the Julia Programming Language
#7My defunct startup Staffjoy operated from 2015 to 2017 and was an early production user of Julia. We open-sourced some of the code here: https://github.com/staffjoy I haven't kept up with the ecosystem - I'm curious how things have improved in the last 5 year!
Probably the most obvious improvements for most users are the big growth in the package ecosystem, with some science and math packages becoming the best available in any language (DifferentialEquations.jl, for example) and the drastic improvement in interactivity: the REPL starts instantly now, and most packages compile much faster. This will get even better in the next major release.
I’m curious (I’m planning on designing an ODE/PDE package relatively soon), what makes DifferentialEquations.jl the best available?
Re: Startups are building with the Julia Programming Language
#8Julia scientific apps and libraries continue to grow and see momentum. Is there interest in Julia outside the scientifc sphere? I'd be interested to hear of non-scientific projects implemented in Julia (for example, business apps or web-related projects.)
Related: I think Julia is an excellent starting language (compared to Python). Is anyone teaching Julia to new programmers with success?
Re: Startups are building with the Julia Programming Language
#9Julia scientific apps and libraries continue to grow and see momentum. Is there interest in Julia outside the scientifc sphere? I'd be interested to hear of non-scientific projects implemented in Julia (for example, business apps or web-related projects.) Related: I think Julia is an excellent starting language (compared to Python). Is anyone teaching Julia to new programmers with success?
Look at GenieCloud, they are essentially building the Django ecosystem in Julia, it will be huge if they are successful.
Re: Startups are building with the Julia Programming Language
#10I heard a talk from a large cybersecurity company that was using Julia for research and is apparently in the process of dropping Julia due to:
- difficulty in hiring, apparently it was too expensive/difficult to hire Julia programmers,
- poorly performing garbage collector. If I recall correctly, they had issues when trying to process huge amounts of data.
Seems like small teams will not run into these issues at least initially.
I really like Julia and I hope it becomes huge, but stories like this make me wonder whether the whole Julia ecosystem will ever mature to a level of Python for example. And in turn, making it viable for large organizations that might be using e.g. Python + C++ combo that might be easier to hire for/more versatile/with better known drawbacks.
Essentially, I am not sure whether the potential of Julia is that much greater than the realized potential of the incumbents to warrant the "Julia is the language of the future".