Julia is as capable as any of the languages you have mentioned as far as I'm concerned. When I read "people want to get work done", I read that as "people want SOMEONE ELSE to do the work". Julia probably isn't the place for them now, if they are looking for someone else to have already provided them with every package with every functionality they would ever want. R, Python, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Scala, PHP, JavaScript are all viable substitutes in different ways.
But if someone is the type of person who likes to build things and collaborate with smart people, then the Julia community will welcome you with open arms. On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 8:04:14 AM UTC-4, Páll Haraldsson wrote: > > > [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 > >
