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> Reasonably simple > 35 minutes to compile What kind of CPU are we talking about here!?
Probably a decent one. Compilation of even small size projects easily took hours as of a year ago. All while people were screaming about how good it was. The equivalent code in other languages would be statically compiled in milliseconds. The size of the binaries was also thousands of times bigger...
> To analyze your heap snapshot, open a Chromium browser and follow these steps: right click -> inspect -> memory -> load. Upload your .heapsnapshot file, and a new tab will appear on the left side to display your snapshot's details. Can the same be done with Firefox's `about:memory`'s `Load...` button, or is it Chromium specific?
This makes a big difference in usability, before loading a big project was almost in the "coffee time" category, now it's more "wait a few seconds". It helps a lot to make the tool feel more responsive.
So, you mean that loading a bigger project in Julia was more or less equal to compiling it with some language like C++? And you had to do it every single time in order to work with the project? This doesn’t sound too good tbo.
I like to explore alternatives to Python and Julia has been one of the tools I am waiting to become mature enough to actually invest some time in. But every time I start reading threads, I see the comments from actual users reporting about half an hour minutes and “coffee time” project compilation. Then the dreaded ecosystem problem. Then I think to myself, well, it’s not the time yet. Also, I wish Julia was as popul…
I am curious what are the fields where it is less well developed?
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> 1. I run Julia on my smartphone and often use it as calculator. How?
You could probably run Termux and launch a REPL from the command line?
Edit: I almost like unicodeplots.jl better though. Its much lighter weight and still lets me figure out most stuff I use plotting for. Through a ssh session if necessary.
I like to explore alternatives to Python and Julia has been one of the tools I am waiting to become mature enough to actually invest some time in. But every time I start reading threads, I see the comments from actual users reporting about half an hour minutes and “coffee time” project compilation. Then the dreaded ecosystem problem. Then I think to myself, well, it’s not the time yet. Also, I wish Julia was as popul…
Extra excited that the project I happen to work on (the Parca open source project[2]) influenced this change [3][4]. Shout out to Valentin Churavy for driving this on the Julia front!
[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/06d4cf072db24ca6df...
I've been a heavy Julia user for +4 years and adore this ecosystem. I use Julia for parallel computing, modeling and solving large-scale optimization problems, stochastic simulations, etc. During the last year or so, creating plots and dashboards has become much easier too.
Julia makes it surprisingly easy to go from "idea" to "large-scale simulation". I've used it in production and just for prototyping/research. I can engage with Julia as deeply as I would with C code or as "lightly" as I engage with Matlab/R.
I'm excited to see what comes next.
I like to explore alternatives to Python and Julia has been one of the tools I am waiting to become mature enough to actually invest some time in. But every time I start reading threads, I see the comments from actual users reporting about half an hour minutes and “coffee time” project compilation. Then the dreaded ecosystem problem. Then I think to myself, well, it’s not the time yet. Also, I wish Julia was as popul…
Honestly, I'd stick with python or learn a statically compiled language to broaden your world. I spent years in the Julia situation and it's more of a cult than anything else. If you ever end up with a job asking for Julia(not likely), you can pick it up in a week or so of free time after some muscle memory kicks in.
What is a "Julia situation" and how is a programming language a cult? It's used by companies, programmers, scientists, etc. to do stuff. This is a strange take.
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Counter anecdote, I had to go back to a quite complex project that a was developed in 1.5, 3 years ago, hundreds of dependencies. Upgrading to 1.9 RC2 required changing a single dep (Light raps to the drop-in Graphs) and a single line (a library changed the return from a String to a StringView)
You're incredibly lucky. Even minor version bumps have left me up shit creek in production with deadlines.