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by andybak 3781 days ago
Which role? A general purpose programming language with an emphasis on readability?
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tanlermin 3781 days ago
Yes...but one that is also very fast, portable and with great generic programming.
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andybak 3781 days ago
I had never considered Julia as a general purpose language. I assumed it was targetted mainly at data science etc.
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ced 3781 days ago
The core language is general purpose, and IMO really good for high-performance work, but the community is focused on numerical code, so there aren't a lot of libraries for non-numerical/scientific/financial work at this point in time.
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21 3781 days ago
Stuff like Numba greatly decreases the need for Julia.

C++17 also feels surprisingly dynamic, and together with Cython for easy Python-C++ interop also decreases the need for Julia.

And reports from the Julia world are not exactly encouraging - http://danluu.com/julialang/

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aut_dan 3781 days ago
That report is over a year old, which for a 4 year old language is a very long time. The top comment in [1] is from a week ago and highlights why it is now mostly invalid.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070764

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