Look at it this way: Julia is so powerful that many language features can be implemented natively, instead of using primitives.
On Tue, Jun 14 2016, Dmitry wrote: > That's what I was afraid of. It comes that Julia is very strongly tied to > its library. I was hoping that it would be like with most other languages, > for example C++. I mean C++ know about basic types and how to work with > them (and much more) even without the standard library. > > понедельник, 6 июня 2016 г., 21:17:16 UTC+4 пользователь Stefan Karpinski > написал: >> >> Really useless – it doesn't know about integers or how add them, for >> example. If you want to trim down the standard library, you can try editing >> out parts of base/sysimg.jl and rebuilding, but that's kind of a tricky >> process. >> >> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Avik Sengupta <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> Julia is pretty useless without its standard library. >>> >>> On Monday, 6 June 2016 14:42:02 UTC+1, Dmitry wrote: >>>> >>>> I tried to remove ".jl" library files from Julia installation directory, >>>> but it did not help. Then I tried to remove "libjulia.dll" but it does not >>>> want to run without this file. >>>> >>> >>
