On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 4:55:22 PM UTC, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > It's unclear what ranking you're referring to here. >
Certainly not, by most interesting language. :) The guys who rank language never do. I just want Julia to get the recognition it deserves. When it hits this list more people will at least know.. It's one of the most well known. > Regardless, I think it would best to stop putting forth these "Julia vs. > X" kinds of comparisons. Julia doesn't need to beat every language in every > way > Right, I'm ok with Rust having an advantage for some stuff. > – looking at this as a zero-sum competition isn't particularly healthy or > productive. > Most would like to only choose one (or few) main language(s). Mindshare matters - at least knowing about the language. Julia is already there in my mind. > We're in the midst of a wonderful renaissance for programming languages > where people are exploring new designs for solving really hard, unsolved > problems. Their successes are not our losses – they are successes for > everyone, including the Julia community. > True. -- Palli.
