Hmmm.... I'd worry that throwing an army of developers at Julia would only slow things down... (go find Frederick Brooks' "The Mythical Man Month", great reading!). Julia has a very strong core of geniuses... plus the help of legions of unpaid volunteers who fight to get their contributions into Julia ;-) I think the thing that will help them most get to 1.0 earlier is some of those passionate people taking care of some of the chunks that aren't there yet... debugging I've heard mentioned a lot, I personally want to help out with string processing, decimal floating point arithmetic, database bindings, and other people can help fill in all of the other holes (like better plotting)
On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 10:12:30 PM UTC-4, Eric Forgy wrote: > > Hi, > > I have never been a huge fan of Microsoft, but I have to admit that with > Nadella at the helm, it does seem like an entirely new company doing some > pretty amazing and innovative things. Windows 10, Surface Pro 3 and Azure > are quickly making a lot of the things we're doing in my FinTech startup > obsolete already. I'm increasingly tempted to ride their wave and hitch my > startup to MS technologies. > > Microsoft recently acquired Revolution Analytics > <http://blogs.technet.com/b/machinelearning/archive/2015/04/06/microsoft-closes-acquisition-of-revolution-analytics.aspx> > > and have integrated R into the Azure SQL suite, which is pretty awesome. > They have also done quite a lot with integrating Python. > > You can guess where I am going with this... > > I can imagine Julia would have to get to 1.0 before Microsoft would > consider incorporating Julia directly into their products. > > I've asked before > <http://blogs.technet.com/b/machinelearning/archive/2015/04/06/microsoft-closes-acquisition-of-revolution-analytics.aspx>, > > and Keno estimated back in January that 1.0 is 2 years away. In light of > the recent discussions around Julia Computing, can you think of ways this > could be accelerated or is it just something that takes that much time? For > example, if significant funds were raised and the core team could build a > small army of senior full-time developers, could this get done quicker? > > If we allow ourselves to dream, how much funds would be required and what > is the shortest path to 1.0? > > "With US$X million, we could produce Julia 1.0 in Y months." > > What is the most optimistic X and Y (allowing ourselves to dream)? > > Best regards, > Eric >
