[Certhas]

Agreed on all points, but you will pay for all this with usability issues and early adopter bugs. The error messages are horrendous, documentation is lacking, and if you run code on hpc, saving the data is probably going to cause you dataloss at least a few times until you find the right obscure GitHub issues.

[sgt101]

This is my experience, hopefully now that 1.x is home and dry we will gradually see the pain of old libraries suddenly failing ebb away, and documentation becoming more co-herant and accurate. Also thanks for calling out the error messages - this has been something I've struggled with and needs some careful attention from the Julia community.

On the otherhand our expectations are huge - I remember early Java and the level of support that you get with Julia now really took a very long time to appear for Java, and that was backed by SUN.

If I were an Intel exec I'd be putting money into this though; I can see it gradually crushing the life out of nVidia and AMD, although I think that there will be a few smiles at ARM towers when they look at this too! I wonder what people could do with 2000 ARM cores in a rack?