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[deXtoRious via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 7 September 2016 at 20:57:03 UTC, data pulverizer 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 September 2016 at 20:29:51 UTC, deXtoRious 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 7 September 2016 at 19:19:23 UTC, data 
>> pulverizer wrote:
>>> The "One language to rule them all" motif of Julia has hit 
>>> the rocks; one reason is because they now realize that their 
>>> language is being held back because the compiler cannot infer 
>>> certain types for example: 
>>> http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2015/11/28/why-julias-dataframes-are-still-slow/
>>
>> As an avid user of Julia, I'm going to have to disagree very 
>> strongly with this statement. The language is progressing very 
>> nicely and while it doesn't aim to be the best choice for 
>> every programming task imaginable...
>
> Ahem (http://www.wired.com/2014/02/julia/), I'm not saying that 
> the Julia founders approved that title, we all know how the 
> press can inflate things, but there was a certain rhetoric that 
> Julia was creating something super-special that would change 
> everything.

That's just typical press nonsense, and even they quote Bezanson 
saying how Julia isn't at all suited to a whole host of 
applications. Julia certainly has (justifiable, imho, though only 
time will tell) aspirations of being useful in certain areas of 
general computing, not just scientific code, but they are far 
from universal applicability, let alone optimality. If nothing 
else, it's an interesting example of thinking rather far outside 
the usual box of language design, one with demonstrable real 
world applications.