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by sgt101 4245 days ago
I would say Julia sucks for embedded programming :); building graphical clients - although not badly as there are various js libaries that it can chat to, games programming, it's not great at data base interaction although once you have the data in it it is fine (frames). The last point is a bit of a development area I would expect to see because Julia has a console and this means that interactive querying would be great - like SQL on steroids but currently without the sql unfortunatley.

Julia shines at developing efficient reusable code for crunching numbers. The type system is really nice, and the syntax is very clean and natural (to me!)
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ViralBShah 4245 days ago
There is work happening on the UI side in Julia. While we are some ways away from building graphical clients in Julia, we do have GTK bindings and such.

For some interesting ideas borrowed from Elm, do see: https://github.com/shashi/Patchwork.jl

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infinite8s 4244 days ago
Is anyone working on direct Qt bindings (I don't consider using PyCall a viable option). Qt is a bit harder to wrap since it is C++, but it look like Lua has been able to auto generate bindings based on the Qt headers.
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StefanKarpinski 4244 days ago
Keno Fischer, who recently created the Cxx package [1] used to be a Qt dev, so I wouldn't be terribly surprised if we see such bindings materialize in the future, using Cxx, of course. That said, I don't want to speak for him, so if someone wants this, they should maybe go ahead and start working on it!

[1] https://github.com/Keno/Cxx.jl

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