Really nice post, Erik. Thanks for writing it! -- John
On Jan 7, 2014, at 11:59 AM, Erik Engheim <[email protected]> wrote: > Given that Julia is not even in version 1 and has a lot less libraries than > Python I don't think Julia is a serious contender in Scientific Computing > today. But I am pretty sure it will be. But that wont happen over night. > > I love programming Julia. It is great for doing hobby stuff and just have fun > programming. There is a lot of opportunity to actually participate and make > serious additions to the language or libraries because so many things don't > exist yet or have not yet become finnished. > > To me Julia is at the moment the language that maps best to how I like to > think about programming problems. It has macros like LISP, but sane syntax > for doing math. I wrote a blog entry about some of these points and on why I > think Julia is more expressive and creates more readable code than Python or > Ruby here.
