JuliaCon 2015 Preview
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Last year's first conference was a big success in my opinion. Videos are available at http://juliacon.org/2014/, although the speakers weren't mic'ed so the sound isn't so great - we'll be fixing that this year.
That's great, it was the only significant annoyance last time! Looking forward to see what people have been doing with this language last year.
[1]: http://juliaopt.org
To get "real work" done, I stuck with the 0.3 line. I've found it to be quite stable. Master is quite lively but should be settling down soon, at which point I'll migrate.
I would love to go if I were any where in the neighborhood. But alas I'm over a thousand miles away.
Even if you can't attend, anything you could write up as either a blog post, a Github issue, anything, would be helpful for getting some discussions going around it at the conference I'm sure.
I think that these arguments are not strong! But what would be useful would be some detailed critical thinking on the topic.
My take is that thinking about where you put multiple dispatch parameterized type matched code components is actually a real challenge. The module structure chosen for a library requires "artful" approaches. Perhaps a good workshop on the topic would yield a guide or an approach to making these decisions? Perhaps a labeling system could be evolved to provide metadata for modules better enabling reuse and promoting discover-ability ? Perhaps static analysis of a code base might be provided that gives recommendations (and assistance) for creating good decompositions and associations?
Detailed critical thinking on any topic would be wonderful. Perhaps I have attended the wrong conferences, but I rarely see presentations like this. We really should think and discuss more and preach our position less in conference settings.
Maybe this is something a plenary could do well - what are the assumptions that underpin some of the things that we are doing? Can we challenge those? Can we pick out the complaints/problems that people outside have about what we are doing?
That's hard for any community to do...
BTW. for the record, I learned years ago that objects did not for a good modularity make...