On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 at 08:51:27 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 at 08:44:26 UTC, Chris wrote:
When people choose a programming language, there are several
boxes that have to be ticked, like for example:
- what's the future of language X? (guarantees, stability)
- how easy is it to get going (from "Hello world" to a
complete tool chain)
- will it run on ARM?
- will it be a good choice for the Web (e.g. webasm)?
- how good is it at data processing / number grinding
- etc.
I don't know if all their claims are 100% true, but let that
sink in for a while:
https://julialang.org/.
Julia is great. I don't see it as a competitor to D but for us
one way researchers might access libraries written in D. One
could do quite a lot in it, but I don't much fancy embedding
Julia in Excel for example, though you could. Or doing DevOps in
Julia. Perhaps more of a Matlab substitute.
Look around and you can find people grumpy about any language
that's used.
http://www.zverovich.net/2016/05/13/giving-up-on-julia.html
Languages really aren't in a battle to the death with each other.
I find this zero-sum mindset quite peculiar.
