On Wednesday, 7 September 2016 at 21:01:59 UTC, deXtoRious wrote:
That's just typical press nonsense, and even they quote Bezanson saying how Julia isn't at all suited to a whole host of applications. Julia certainly has (justifiable, imho, though only time will tell) aspirations of being useful in certain areas of general computing, not just scientific code, but they are far from universal applicability, let alone optimality. If nothing else, it's an interesting example of thinking rather far outside the usual box of language design, one with demonstrable real world applications.
It's also from 2014...
