> I’ve had a lot of frustration with the Julia community being unwilling to see faults in the language.
How about just moving on? It's not like there is a lack of languages and tools out there.
How about just moving on? It's not like there is a lack of languages and tools out there.
But even good systems need critique, otherwise there can be no improvement or growth.
It would probably take another 1,000 word blogpost to go through why Julia is amazing, despite all these problems. I'm sure I will make that post someday.
While I do like Rust, the basic design of Julia and Rust are just very different. They're intended to solve different problems, and the problems I have are the problems Julia is designed to solve. The love comes from just how well it solves those problems compared to every other programming language out there.
Compared to Rust specifically, Rust is a complete nonstarter for interactive coding, since there isn't a REPL. Even if there was, it's way too complicated to use interactively - a garbage collector would be a must, and a lot of these compile time checks that I praise would be a major pain in the ass when coding casually. It's also way too slow to write: Even after having written Rust for a few months, I estimate I can solve a problem using Julia 4 times faster than using Rust, using maybe 2/3 the number of lines, or less.
Things can have faults and be worth investing in, it doesn't need to be an all or nothing false dilemma. Nothing would get fixed if we all just self selected in this way.
Nowadays I’m doing my ML in rust which has been pretty nice, but the borrow checker does bite you a bit and there’s not much of a community.
Julia seems really promising, the community just gets their head in the sand a bit
He says julia is his favourite language in the very first sentence.