My answer to these questions is always the same these days: if you're not sure that you have enough expertise to determine Julia's value for yourself, then you should be cautious and stick to playing around with Julia rather than trying to jump onboard wholesale. Julia is a wonderful language and it's very usable for many things, but you shouldn't expect that you can do all (or even most) of your work in Julia unless you're confident that you can do the development work required to implement any functionality that you find to be missing. Depending on your specific interests, you might find that Julia is missing nothing or you might find that Julia is missing everything.
-- John On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 7:27:52 AM UTC-7, J.Z. wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been following julia for some time and have seen lots of positive > comments. There are still lots of good work being put into its development. > I use R and Python to do lots of technical (statistical) computing and > would like to try julia for my work. My quick question to the current users > and developers is that whether it is a good time to learn julia now, or > should I wait until the language is more mature? Could it be the case that > things I learn now would be broken in future releases and I have to relearn > everything? > > Thanks! > JZ >
