[randrus]

In case this is relevant to your reasons for posting … every time I see one of the fact free posts the slam Python to promote Julia it pushes me further from considering Julia for anything.

[bbor]

Obviously the comment above is far from helpful in tone or content, but this spurred me to look it up. As a python guy, my takeaways are:

1. It’s designed by mathematicians specifically for math.

2. It has much better support for generic/runtime types, something the academics apparently describe using the terms “parametric polymorphism” and “multi-dispatch”.

Plus there’s this cute founding ethos blog post from 2012, though it’s necessarily vague: https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/

None of that sounds even close to convincing me to switch from Python, but I can see the appeal for people who value those typing features and want something faster.

I don’t necessarily see the connection between either of those things and the implementation above, tho… presumably it’s basically instant, anyway?

[__MatrixMan__]

I would be more likely to pick up Julia if comments like gp told me something interesting about the language.

[bgoated01]

The biggest thing that keeps me from using Julia rather than Python for math prototypes is that it uses one-based indexing. I go back and forth between these prototypes and my C++ codebase, and the mental gymnastics to switch from 0-based to 1-based makes Julia a non-starter for me. I prefer Julia over Python other than that one issue, and the lower availability of tutorials, etc. for Julia.

[xiaodai]

I am sorry. I am autistic.