Julia might get Microsoft's attention at some point. You could go vote for http://feedback.azure.com/forums/257792-machine-learning/suggestions/7668225-julia-support-in-azureml-studio, for one thing.
The recently-released VS Code editor also looks very nice, and as soon as it supports plugins it would be very worthwhile to look at making a Julia plugin for it. I've also recently been in touch with someone from the Microsoft MPI team, it might end up being tractable to get some libraries and Julia packages that use MPI for parallelism to work on Windows too. We'll have to see. Regarding getting to Julia 1.0 faster, we also very badly need more influence within the LLVM community. Keno has a large number of patches open to make LLVM and MCJIT work better for Julia, but they're not getting reviewed by enough people. Having Julia Computing get enough resources to hire, say, the top few dozen contributors full-time would absolutely help things advance faster, but I don't think it should be rushed either. On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 6:07:05 PM UTC-7, Eric Forgy wrote: > > Very cool reading: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/11196 > > I occasionally write code, but to call myself a "developer" would be an > insult to you guys who are doing awesome things :) > > If Julia apps are ever going to target enterprises in a serious manner, > there absolutely must be solid support for Windows. I'll keep my eyes open > for ways to help out. > > On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 8:32:31 PM UTC+8, Steven G. Johnson wrote: >> >> If you are a Windows developer, it would be great to have your help in >> getting/keeping Julia running smoothly on Windows; only a few of the most >> active developers use Windows regularly right now. Probably the biggest >> improvement will be the transition to libgit (issue #11196), as the package >> system on Windows is deathly slow at the moment. >> >
