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We've banned this account. Regardless of how right you are or feel you are, you can't attack other users like you did in this thread, and certainly not for ethnic/national/racial reasons.

I appreciate that you have lots of good points to make but we need you to abide by the site rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Please don't create accounts to break those rules with.

> Julia doesn’t have proper traits nor interfaces

as opposed to Python? where type hints are just that. Hints. It's not even enforced. But u can use mypy... right.... yeah, retrofit more stuff on python. why not? (sarcastic).

I am not a Chinese national btw, I am from Malaysia.

I’m talking about code organization, not types. In Julia, methods are grouped together by type dispatch, mostly. There are times when code reuse comes into play where it’s helpful, but mostly it just confuses the issue and introduces ambiguity into the structure of the program in the big picture sense.

My mistake, I saw your name was xiaodai and assumed.

My point is, Julia is not suited for general software, and it’s questionable as a tool for technical computing as well.

For running simulations and models where the code can be written and never looked at again, maybe it’s okay to use. But for anything else, Python is a lot nicer, and a lot more practical to write proper software in.

> My mistake, I saw your name was xiaodai and assumed.

Oh my bad, I disregarded your comment based on your assumed Chinese nationality and “spam” (also assumed?). Since you’re not Chinese you’re worth my time.

I don’t get it.

Luckily, I wasn’t replying to you? Weirdo.

I've seen this criticism that it's "difficult to reason about which method will actually be called because of the type system" once before, but it absolutely flummoxes me... I have literally never been confused about which method is going to be called by my code, and I'm not even a proper computer scientist (just a regular scientist scientist).

Maybe this is just an issue of not having years of OO habits influencing the way I reason about dispatch in Julia?? Honestly not sure.

I’ve never had any trouble understanding my code but understanding someone else’s multiple dispatch code has ALWAYS been hard for me.

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