On Friday, 18 October 2013 at 13:04:51 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Julia is a very new language, quite newer than D. I don't think it's a good idea to recommend it for real work.
I don't think that the simple rule comparing age of the languages in question for risk assessment is very useful. Given all of the other variables, I'd be more likely to recommend Julia for numerical linear algebra today than D for the same role.
That's not a slam on D, which I mostly like better than it's competition (C++, Rust, C, ...) but rather an observation that the Julia community is entirely focused on this domain.
A really risk averse programmer who wouldn't consider Julia in this domain wouldn't consider D either
-- Brian
