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by tanlermin 3637 days ago
Julia can do all that. its also a general programming language
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It's like you're recommending a restaurant by saying that its food is "edible".

All in all, this is a bad recommendation. Julia is version 0.4. Its syntax changes with every version. It is not going to be stable soon. It is so far from stable that it doesn't have a plan for what stability will look like.

It's fine if you want to get in on the ground floor of a programming language, or to learn a new language for the fun of it, but it's completely unreasonable to suggest that you could replace a programming language that people use for their jobs that way.

Well sure, in the same way MATLAB is a general programming language. It can be done, but it'll make you feel icky.