On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 12:35:47 PM UTC, Randy Zwitch wrote: > > 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". >
And you would be absolutely right. I tried to phrase the question in a positive way with "and help needed?" [For me, that would be mostly non-math stuff*, and I've submitted some trivial/beginner.. fixes.] I'm ok with that as I am just tinkering. Imagine Julia had no libraries, as at first then I would have been as exited about the language. It is a language that makes me think differently and try new paradigms I haven't tried before (multiple dispatch). I might have tried to build a website (and web server from scratch). Some people do not want to be early adopters. I can understand that. I'm not so sure you would be by now. I'm asking about the "ecosystem" not the language per se. I know about JuliaQuant, BioJulia, GPU stuff in Julia JuliaWeb etc. I am so grateful for what has already been done with the language - and the libraries from what I can see. If there where my fields, I think I would jump on Julia right now. I'm not sure why people are reluctant, I want to tell them you do not only have basic building blocks (linear algebra/matrix multiplication, FFT etc. stuff in Base), but also these libraries that (mostly) work, and if not you can help fix/contribute. I do not want to oversell Julia, so I keep quiet (mostly) about stuff I'm ignorant about.. * I knew about say, Morsel (Sinatra-like), then Mux is recommended over it. I'm not sure, it seems to be a replacement/also Sinatra-style. I've never used "full web frameworks". PHP isn't my favorite language and while I'm sure Python (or Ruby) is nice for web stuff I'm willing to use Julia even if there is (short term) pain/learning experience.. I would want to be able to do what is needed in pure Julia. Even knowing about future direction is helpful, there might be some duplication of effort and you might end up fixing the wrong package.. A list of packages to use/focus on for helping with would be helpful in this and the other two areas. > Julia probably isn't the place for them now Are at least some of the packages ready and used in production already? -- Palli.
