On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Don Gateley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm following this list as a prelude to jumping into actually learning and > coding with Julia. An impression I get from perusing the daily digest is > that there are still a lot of design issues and implementation issues still > afloat. Is that a valid impression or am I just too impressionable? :-) > > If it is valid then perhaps some more settling time is in order before > pushing it outside a small community of contributes and testers. I know I > have considered that myself when thinking about getting started. If one > has to search a mailing list to find out how it works and how that evolves > I consider it too soon in the game for me. Having said that, I've mainly > used C, Matlab, and APL and find Julia incredibly seductive. > There are certainly still many issue being worked out, but when these things change, surprisingly little code is affected. I think this is because we know mostly how we want to write code – it's the details of what it means that sometimes need work. But yes, if there weren't a fair number of design issues to be resolved, we'd be at version 1.0 already.
