Well thank you very much for the exuberant message. A lot of people have put a lot of work into this release, and it's nice for everyone involved to wake up to messages like this in their inbox. :) -E
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Carlo Kokoth <[email protected]> wrote: > I remember checking Julia some time back, and thinking "This looks almost > perfect". > > Macros (and homoiconicity), multiple dispatch, the Types section of the > manual is geek-porn, speedy more than enough, support for distributed > computation, yada, yada (yeah, I'm a programming language fetishist ;-). > > I wished basically only two things, threading support and some way to > cache compiled code. > > And today I checked what is happenning, and whadda-ya-know, 0.3.0 has been > released, stating, among other things: > > - System image caching for fast startup. > - Multi-process shared memory support. (multi-threading support is in > progress and has been a major summer focus) > > WoooooOOOOOOOoooooooooo. Haven't expected so fast progress. > > Next very pleasant surprise was trying out GTK. I feared (sadly running on > windows at work) that the installation would fail because it would try to > compile the dependencies from sources and I don't have mingw on PATH by > default, but instead binaries were downloaded. And then, after writing a > bit of test code, it worked without a glitch. > > I had more troubles with getting some packages work with python (no > pre-compiled bins, and although I can manage, sometimes getting all the > transitive dependencies is an afternoon of downloading yet another source > archive, ./configure-ing, make-ing, digging into why it failed, patching, > rinsing, repeating ...). > > So right now, I'd give Julia about 6 points out of 5, (as 1.0 approaches, > the score will most likely rise to 10 out of 5, don't skimp on the awesome > ;-). > > In-fucking-credible work, thanks to everyone who helped to make it happen, > C.K. >
