Hello, I'm looking at Julia for general purpose programming and things look good so far. However, I want to see if I can elicit feedback from those that have ventured deeper into larger projects before moving further. Below are questions regarding areas of concern I've seen cited and I'm wondering if these issues are real. If anyone can provide experience I would be much obliged( My frame of reference is python).
1. Strings. Are they faster in 0.5 (python speed or better). How about ease of use? 2. Inheritance- Any issues with not being able to do concrete inheritance? 3. Module system and dispatch- Lots of Ink has been spilled on this, and I understand that organizing multi dispatch code is an open research question. However, it seems there are legitimate concerns about name clashes,ease of use etc I've also perused some open issues, but don't see a fundamental redesign. How does Julia fare for larger general projects compared to say python or java> 4. Multi dispatch. How do you find its utility for non numerical code? Thanks!
