After updating to latest master and recompiling julia, firing up a terminal and doing "julia" gives a user experience that is comparable to "python" in speed (i.e. both are ready to roll in less than a second), and the Julia REPL has a bunch of nice colors. I call that a win =)
This is great work indeed! // Tomas On Monday, March 31, 2014 2:38:48 PM UTC+2, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > Hey, in networking protocols, infinity is often 15. > > On Mar 31, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Job van der Zwan > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > On Saturday, 29 March 2014 20:59:19 UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >> >> >> - The new REPL, is pretty clean, simple Julia code. Seriously – terminal >> >> support<https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/Terminals.jl>, >> line >> editing<https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/LineEdit.jl>, >> and the REPL >> itself<https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/REPL.jl>are less >> than 2000 lines of code – >> *total*. This works out to a net code reduction of 33233 lines of >> code (GNU readline is 34640 lines of C), while *gaining*functionality. >> That has to be a project record. >> - The new code is infinitely easier to modify, fix and improve, so >> REPL-replated bugs will probably get fixed lickety split going forward. >> >> TIL infinity is approximately 33/2. Seriously though, that's amazing. > Well done guys! > >
