On Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 4:13:11 AM UTC-5, Tamas Papp wrote: > > Assuming that the comparative advantage of Julia is in scientific > programming, do people really run these on such very low-powered > hardware? >
Well, I'd dispute that assumption. Although there are a number of things that can be improved in Julia to make it a *better* general-purpose language, and some holes like decent debugging support filled, it *already* is better than most languages in a number of ways. If it can be pared down to essentials, it will be a great language for programming things like the Pi, even with the current ARM chips. The idea that Julia should *only* be focused on scientific computing is rather aggravating to those of us using it for general purpose programming. At least the press release for the Moore Foundation's grant said: "The Julia Language <http://julialang.org./> project’s mission is to create a free and open-source language that is *general purpose* but designed to excel at numerical computing and data science." (Emphasis is my own).
