Furthermore it is sometimes hard to define what "research" is. Some people would say that Cxx.jl is a great engineering effort. I would say it is research as you (Keno) are doing things that are radically new and I doubt that any C++ would have though that this is possible (at least me not).
Cheers, Tobi Am Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2015 10:04:11 UTC+1 schrieb Tobias Knopp: > > Eric (and Keno), > > My statement that Julia "is from and for researchers" has been made in a > certain context where I wanted to explain why Julia has a different > development model than a programming language that is development within > Google. > > My personal opinion is that Julia is a great general purpose language that > will be very interesting beyond researchers. I have worked in companies and > believe that Julia has a great potential for > - reducing development time > - generating maintainable code > > Because I believe in this I have worked on embedding Julia in C/C++ which > also could be an option for your business (see the embedding chapter in the > docs). > > A better statement might be "Julia is currently developed by many > researcher and used by many researcher but is absolutely not limited to > research" > > Cheers, > > Tobi > > > > Am Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2015 07:13:24 UTC+1 schrieb Eric Forgy: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> Happy New Year! >> >> I briefly introduced myself and what I'm trying to do here >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/julia-users/Forgy/julia-users/umHiBwVLQ4g/P6DoT7qGrB8J> >> . >> >> I saw that Stefan gave a nice answer to the question "Is Julia ready for >> production use? <https://www.quora.com/Is-Julia-ready-for-production-use>" >> over on Quora. However, being ready for production is one thing and being >> ready for use in an enterprise application for large conservative financial >> institutions that undergo audits by regulators, etc., might be another. >> >> A comment in this group was made yesterday,"Julia is from and for >> researchers. >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/GyH8nhExY9I/_mLCNVFOcKMJ>" >> I notice there are quite a number of researchers developing Julia, but >> naturally there is a much smaller team of core developers that seem to work >> very well together. If this small team disintegrated for some reason, e.g. >> find jobs, etc., I'm not sure Julia would have the escape velocity to >> develop into a mature enough language for the kind of applications I have >> in mind. >> >> I am bootstrapping a startup so I need to be careful how I allocate my >> time and resources. I don't mind being a little cutting edge, but I would >> have to consider the likelihood that Julia reaches at least a "first >> version" 1.0. >> >> So can I ask for some honest advice? With the obvious caveats understood, >> how far away is a "1.0"? How long can the core team continue its dedication >> to the development of Julia? Will Julia remain "from and for researchers" >> indefinitely? Can you envision Julia being used in large enterprise >> financial applications? >> >> Thank you for any words of wisdom. >> >> Best regards, >> Eric >> >
