Hi Dmitrii, As I understand, Julia does not have native type for microsecond and > nanosecond timestamps. > > 1) Why is that? >
Most likely because no one who uses Julia has needed it enough to implement it. Would you be willing to try? > 2) Are there any plans to include/extend current types dealing with time > in near future? > Expanding on my answer to 1: Julia is young, and while core developers do communicate with each other and share their ideas about goals for the next release or two, AFAIK, the main places you'll find those ideas are in issues the julialang github repository. Additional non-core functionality is added in packages by individuals or groups who need it. At this point, that's about as formal as it gets. So a better way to phrase this question would be to ask if anyone is doing anything which needs this functionality, and have they implemented anything. For example, there are individuals who have developed packages that interact with external data acquisition boards ( https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/NIDAQ.jl), who might have need for and/or have developed such functionality (I don't know). One additional note: Julia is flexible enough that adding "native" types is possible, even in packages (see, e.g., the DataArrays package). Depending on the type, it may (or may not) be tedious to do so, but it's definitely possible, and the resulting type can be just as performant as any other native type. Cheers! Kevin
