Hello, while reading different stuff about Julia I did stumble upon its Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_%28programming_language%29) where there is table comparing Julia with Common Lisp, Fortress and Dylan.
I'm not interested neither for Lisp nor for Fortress (which anyway seems to be not alive), but wonder how does Julia compare with Dylan in general. Afaik, one of the differences is that Julia JIT-ed, while Dylan produces native executables which might impact the performance for end user. Anything else which might be important to know and/or some reasons why the creators of Julia were not e.g. happy with Dylan (amongst many other languages) and pursued designing Julia? In the past I was playing with Haskel, but found that there is too much monad talk and the language had too steep learning curve for some of potential contributors to the project - multi-platfom GUI (desktop) app. Later I was evaluating D, Ada, OCaml, F#, Nimrod, Rust...some are nice languages, but most are lacking bindings for developing GUI desktop applications and/or are more suitable as 'system' and not 'general programming' language, iow. fiddling with low(er)-level stuff like pointers etc. - we want to avoid C(++) - or have strange syntax like Rust. Iow. we're looking for some 'general programming' language suitable for desktop app which is has good-enough performance and provide more type-safety than e.g. Python (we have to call 3rd party lib for computing planetary ephemeris and would like to use sqlite3 as app's storage format). I saw a thread which 'claimed' that e.g. Julia is e.g not quicker than Python/Cython although it seems it was due usage of int32. So, anyone somewhat familiar with boh Julia & Dylan can share what would be some of the Julia's advantage(s) to choose it over Dylan? Are there some major features missing in either language which I am not seeing or the two can't be easily compared at all? Sincerely, Gour -- In this endeavor there is no loss or diminution, and a little advancement on this path can protect one from the most dangerous type of fear. http://www.atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810
