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by onerandompotato 1869 days ago
Wouldn't Julia be that language? Its fast, supports static typing, and is built from the ground up for machine learning/ data science. It also has a built in REPL.
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N1H1L 1869 days ago
Julia is that language now. Previously I had sunk cost fallacy regarding Python, but now we are building a brand new application from scratch, and we chose Julia.
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IshKebab 1868 days ago
Julia is nothing like Python though, and it has other flaws like 1-based indexing and huge delays loading packages as it compiles them.
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DickieStarshine 1868 days ago
How is it nothing like Python?

1-based indexing is definitely not a flaw. And version 1.6 massively decreased package import and precompilation time.

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IshKebab 1868 days ago
> 1-based indexing is definitely not a flaw.

It really is. We've known it for literally decades:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...

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kescobo 1868 days ago
It really depends on what you do - sometimes offsets are better, sometimes an index is better. If you really want 0-based indexing, you can have it! https://github.com/JuliaArrays/OffsetArrays.jl

My own preference is random indexing, it's so much more exciting to be surprised https://www.juliabloggers.com/random-based-indexing-for-arra...

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