I should have been more specific. I am just wondering if the core language itself (syntax etc.) would change a lot in the future or not. I am not expecting that Julia has a specific package that R provides. But then it's good to know whether the fundamentals like basic visualization and optimization functions are mature or not.
On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 10:57:08 AM UTC-4, John Myles White wrote: > > 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 >> >
