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0 pointspjmlp9y ago0 comments

I do follow Julia development and I am aware that it isn't quite there, but at least their community does embrace JIT compilation, not like Python that PyPy is just yet another project, ignored by the reference implementation.

> SciPy, which, you may not be aware, is basically C and Fortran code wrapped in Python API.

Which for me personally means, that I would rather C and Fortran directly or better yet, a C++, .NET or Java binding to them.

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orf9y ago· 2 in thread

> Which for me personally means, that I would rather C and Fortran directly or better yet, a C++, .NET or Java binding to them.

Being able to describe things with a syntax that looks almost like pseudocode and runs highly-optimized C/Fortran code to do heavy lifting has huge, huge advantages.

pjmlpOP9y ago

Scala, Clojure, F# also allow it, with the added benefit of industrial strength JIT/AOT compilers.

orf9y ago

Except without the great Python ecosystem and without great projects like Numpy/Scipy

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