Please post such open-ended or X-vs-Y opinion questions to a different venue, such as reddit or a personal blog.
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Páll Haraldsson <[email protected]> wrote: > > [First Julia claims good support with Python by using PyCall). As Python > 3.5 was just released I wander if that still holds or needs fixing: > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0492/ > > for concurrency (or otherwise). I know I could just check out.. but] in > general I wander how appropriate Julia is now, instead of (or with > best-in-class languages): Erlang etc. > > > I think Julia's focus is serial AND parallel coding (but concurrency to a > lesser degree? I'm aware there are changes in 0.4). > > I know concurrency is not the same as parallel, but needed for it or > useful on its own. > > I understand Erlang (or Elixir, "based on it"), maybe the best > language/implementation for concurrency, what it's made for. Julia may not > compare, just yet. Maybe something is needed but it has the right > foundation? Or not (has mutable state..). > > > Some really like Go (for those who do not like a functional language), for > stuff like this, and it has N:M threading. Is that a showstopper for Julia? > Any benchmarks on how scalable Julia is vs. Go? Any idea how difficult it > would be to add N:M threading? > > -- > Palli. > > > >
