It is worth differentiating what core Julia - the language and its standard library - includes as a default, and what different distributions of Julia may include to provide a good user experience. I personally have been wanting to make a distribution that includes a few key packages that I like and plotting for a while! I think with 0.4, we will be able to start doing this.
-viral On Sunday, July 12, 2015 at 7:43:28 PM UTC+5:30, [email protected] wrote: > > I think there's a big differences between developing core features in > packages and shipping them with the default version and having optional > third party packages implementing core features. > > Personally I also find the huge amount of packages to be slightly > annoying, but it's also clear the Julia team cannot do everything like > Matlab would. The only thing I really would like to have > included by default it plotting tools, because they are so essential for a > lot of things. >
