[krastanov]

I think the dynamical recompilation that made code caching difficult is from 0.6, the last release before 0.7 (the first stable release). From 0.1 (2012 or 2013) to 0.7 julia evolved drastically. They stabilized only in 2018ish. This seems like a pretty reasonable timeline for something no other language has done before (although, as I mentioned, pytorch/jax/tensorflow have some limited similarities, and similar problems).

[tastyminerals2]

I see. Right, 2017 was the first time I tried Julia and never came really back. Then the Torch, TF, Keras, PyTorch era started and kept ML engineers busy while I think Julia couldn’t keep up. Well, there is Flux. Not sure how it compares.

[jakobnissen]

It can't compare, not even close. There is just too little devpower behind Flux. Also, the AD landscape in Julia have been changing so fast that the ground has been shifting under Flux, so to speak.

It's a shame, because Julia is so obviously a good language for DL.