[I have friends who might benefit from Julia.] Say for, quants/finance and bio (genome sequencing and systems biology). And for me, for web use (what is recommended, Escher; Mux, isn't that Sinatra-style? Nothing available similar to Django/Rails? Or needed? Would Python/Django and Julia work well together? Anyone tried?)
[I just do not want to be "promoting" Julia too much if the libraries are hopelessly broken/immature, and I can't judge myself in very specific cases. Even is they could help, but better to know then. Pointers to good libraries in these three areas that you trust would be good.] I pretty much think I know the strengths of Julia - as a language, but people want to get work done, and libraries matter. I'm not just asking for existence, I'm aware of a lot of libraries in these and other areas, I'm thinking what is the coverage of those areas and are they beta quality (and help needed?)? I don't know maybe the questions about these areas need to be more targeted? Should I ask the what they do/need as I'm ignorant of that..? I'm also just curious in general how big the landscape of powerful libraries is.. I understand e.g the optimization libraries are best in class.. [My quant (physicist friend used Python/Numpy/C++, and the systems biology one MATLAB/C++. I guess if there are gaps you can easily use the other languages together to fill them, less so with MATLAB?] Thanks, -- Palli
