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Why Is NumPy Only Now Getting Funded?

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Re: Why Is NumPy Only Now Getting Funded?

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Post by rjbwork »

We have this problem in the .NET world. Accord.NET is written by a brilliant academic and programmer. It's well written, and has a good API, but it is largely the effort of this one dude, with minor contributions from a smattering of other fellows.

Again, it is great in general, but it has bugs and rough edges here or there, and a lot of people don't trust it for production. I wish there was a way for people to be properly compensated for building and maintaining such vital scientific and mathematical computing software.

Re: Why Is NumPy Only Now Getting Funded?

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Post by kronos29296 »

js8 wrote: post #2

"The problem of sustainability for open source scientific software projects is significant." Yeah, William Stein can tell these stories too: http://sagemath.blogspot.cz/2015/09/funding-open-source-math...

Yeah, every open source scientific software seems to have an uphill task before it gets recognized. Sagemath more so than others because of its scale and having a huge code base. Having to integrate multiple open source projects isn't helping either.

But its a fine project and one that I use. For a collection of other projects it works better than most other individual projects.

"Every successful science library has the ashes of an academic career in the making" - Same guy

Re: Why Is NumPy Only Now Getting Funded?

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Post by mattfrommars »

Ok, so the problem seems to be 'lack of maintainer' or could be stretched to contributer. The article later linked to https://www.slideshare.net/NadiaEghbal/consider-the-maintain... which kind of reminded me a problem which I'm facing.

After getting through basic of "Introduction to Computer Science Using Python" and forever pending goal to become a "Python Developer", is anyone here who is experience in Python willing to be my mentor? In return, free Python labor. :)

Re: Why Is NumPy Only Now Getting Funded?

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Post by pc2g4d »

mattfrommars wrote: post #7

Ok, so the problem seems to be 'lack of maintainer' or could be stretched to contributer. The article later linked to https://www.slideshare.net/NadiaEghbal/consider-the-maintain... which kind of reminded me a problem which I'm facing. After getting through basic of "Introduction to Computer Science Using Python" and forever pending goal to become a "Python Developer", is anyone here who is experience in Python willi…

Ask me questions and I'll do my best to respond

Re: Why Is NumPy Only Now Getting Funded?

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Post by jordigh »

Also a problem for Octave. Remember this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13603575

It also stings a little when people say that it's completely obsolete because Matlab itself is "legacy" and we should all be abandoning the language, Octave included... and yet, even though I like numpy and Python and matplotlib and Julia and R, I still find myself reaching for Octave whenever I need a quick visualisation of some data.

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