New Horizons for Julia

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13 pointsleephillips3 comments

I'm surprised this has no comments/interest, it seems to me Julia is making great strides towards being an approachable, high-performance general purpose language with a great STEM emphasis.

My personal list of the most interesting modern languages: Mojo, Rust, and Julia.

Of course there are plenty of other worthy candidates, Haskell and jank being a couple that are less relevant to my use cases...

> I'm surprised this has no comments/interest

Julia is all well and good, but who is hiring for numerical computing roles? Lots of web and ML API plumbing. No real applied math anywhere to be found. I guess math doesn’t make money?

I’m sure the ratio of people working on physics simulations / those working on getting suckers to click on ads is a pretty small number. Julia is used more for the people in the numerator than in the denominator.

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