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0 pointsxbpx4y ago0 comments

I wholeheartedly agree. X instead of reasonably-similar-Y isn't convincing in and of itself. I'm not even convinced Julia will be the dominant numerical programming language.

That said I'd like it if it develops a robust and large ecosystem because I personally like coding in it. It has built-in matrix ops, parallel ops, dynamic dispatch etc that are really nice to work with in the numerical space. Like Matlab but well rounded and fast.

So I admit my comment is less argument and more cheerleading. "Hey folks let's make this the case so us numerical people can have a slightly improved experience".

In the grand scheme of things this is as noble or ignoble as any.

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chaxor4y ago

** like Matlab - but free and open source ** Perhaps an important aspect that allows it to be relevant

punnerud4y ago

I think Python is used by a lot of people now because elementary schools and universities teaching it, easy to start with and you can gradually convert to more advanced (compact) language, you can prototype easily without having to remember a lot of syntax, and you come a long way without an IDE (+ Jupyter Notebook is great).

I love that Torch is converted to Python. I think it’s more importantly with a large ecosystem than the most efficient language.

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