Julia looks like a fantastic language for data analysis, and I'm excited there's finally a good (free) alternative to Matlab. Recently it seems there's been a trend in the scientific community to switch to python over Matlab for increased flexibility when programming.
I looked though the documentation and was slightly disappointed though. It seems there are a lot of small intricacies that would make this a more time consuming language to learn, similar to C++ or Ruby. Additionally, in the documentation it looked like I saw a lot of "you can totally do this bad practice coding, but you shouldn't because it's bad practice". I guess this is a more personal preference to like more strict programming languages but I think they're easier to work with while learning and in the long run. It looks like Julia is the opposite paradigm compared to languages like Go.
For these reasons I think this will be fantastic for scientific computing, but I'm not seeing it as widely adopted for general purpose programming. I'm not trying to be negative because this looks like great work, I was just wondering to get your thoughts on this?
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Julia looks like a fantastic language for data analysis, and I'm excited there's finally a good (free) alternative to Matlab. Recently it seems there's been a trend in the scientific community to switch to python over Matlab for increased flexibility when programming.
I looked though the documentation and was slightly disappointed though. It seems there are a lot of small intricacies that would make this a more time consuming language to learn, similar to C++ or Ruby. Additionally, in the documentation it looked like I saw a lot of "you can totally do this bad practice coding, but you shouldn't because it's bad practice". I guess this is a more personal preference to like more strict programming languages but I think they're easier to work with while learning and in the long run. It looks like Julia is the opposite paradigm compared to languages like Go.
For these reasons I think this will be fantastic for scientific computing, but I'm not seeing it as widely adopted for general purpose programming. I'm not trying to be negative because this looks like great work, I was just wondering to get your thoughts on this?
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