Eric (and Keno), My statement that Julia "is from and for researchers" has been made in a certain context where I wanted to explain why Julia has a different development model than a programming language that is development within Google.
My personal opinion is that Julia is a great general purpose language that will be very interesting beyond researchers. I have worked in companies and believe that Julia has a great potential for - reducing development time - generating maintainable code Because I believe in this I have worked on embedding Julia in C/C++ which also could be an option for your business (see the embedding chapter in the docs). A better statement might be "Julia is currently developed by many researcher and used by many researcher but is absolutely not limited to research" Cheers, Tobi Am Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2015 07:13:24 UTC+1 schrieb Eric Forgy: > > Hi everyone, > > Happy New Year! > > I briefly introduced myself and what I'm trying to do here > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/julia-users/Forgy/julia-users/umHiBwVLQ4g/P6DoT7qGrB8J> > . > > I saw that Stefan gave a nice answer to the question "Is Julia ready for > production use? <https://www.quora.com/Is-Julia-ready-for-production-use>" > over on Quora. However, being ready for production is one thing and being > ready for use in an enterprise application for large conservative financial > institutions that undergo audits by regulators, etc., might be another. > > A comment in this group was made yesterday,"Julia is from and for > researchers. > <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/GyH8nhExY9I/_mLCNVFOcKMJ>" I > notice there are quite a number of researchers developing Julia, but > naturally there is a much smaller team of core developers that seem to work > very well together. If this small team disintegrated for some reason, e.g. > find jobs, etc., I'm not sure Julia would have the escape velocity to > develop into a mature enough language for the kind of applications I have > in mind. > > I am bootstrapping a startup so I need to be careful how I allocate my > time and resources. I don't mind being a little cutting edge, but I would > have to consider the likelihood that Julia reaches at least a "first > version" 1.0. > > So can I ask for some honest advice? With the obvious caveats understood, > how far away is a "1.0"? How long can the core team continue its dedication > to the development of Julia? Will Julia remain "from and for researchers" > indefinitely? Can you envision Julia being used in large enterprise > financial applications? > > Thank you for any words of wisdom. > > Best regards, > Eric >
