Thanks for those strong voices. Will spend more time on Julia!
On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 11:39:06 AM UTC-4, Scott Jones wrote: > > Ditto 110% to what Seth and Tom just said... and I only heard of Julia 3 > months ago, and started contributing on GitHub less than 2 months ago... I > still like C for some things (and Julia interfaces wonderfully with C), but > as for any other languages... I'd really prefer to just forget them!) > > On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 11:29:33 AM UTC-4, Seth wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 9:58:05 AM UTC-5, Tom Breloff wrote: >>> >>> Will the language change? Yes. Will you have to relearn things? Yes. >>> Will new releases break code? Yes. Should you start using Julia now? >>> YES! >>> >>> The language is fairly mature, considering its age. I've been using >>> Julia exclusively for 8 months now. I used to do C/C++/Python/R and also >>> Java/Matlab. If I never have to program in any of those languages again, >>> I'll be a happy man. Commit to learning the "Julian" way of doing things, >>> and you won't regret it. >>> >>> >> Just wanted to voice my strong agreement with this response. I, too, >> started using Julia exclusively about 8 months ago (after a frustrating >> false start). It's a great language that makes it easy to develop working, >> fast code. >> >>
