> > I am just wondering if the core language itself (syntax etc.) would change > a lot in the future or not.
I think there is an important distinction to be made here: - depending on the features you use, parts of your code will almost certainly break from 0.3 -> 0.4 -> 0.5 -> .... As John said, these changes are (a) usually beneficial overall, and (b) usually not tremendously hard to adapt to (and will hopefully become easier over time as debugging tools and things like Lint.jl mature) - your mental model *mostly* shouldn't. Julia probably won't be dropping garbage collection, adopting whitespace-denoted blocks, switching to 0-based indexing (don't ask...), adopting an Idris-level of strictness in the type system, etc. Hopefully I don't eat my words, but this shouldn't be like Rust 0.3 -> 1.0 where a similar-looking but remarkably changed language emerged over the years [not meant as a criticism, btw: Rust's open development process specifically, and overall community, are very inspirational] On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:34 AM, J.Z. <jianlin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I should have been more specific. I am just wondering if the core language > itself (syntax etc.) would change a lot in the future or not. I am not > expecting that Julia has a specific package that R provides. But then it's > good to know whether the fundamentals like basic visualization and > optimization functions are mature or not. > > > On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 10:57:08 AM UTC-4, John Myles White wrote: >> >> My answer to these questions is always the same these days: if you're not >> sure that you have enough expertise to determine Julia's value for >> yourself, then you should be cautious and stick to playing around with >> Julia rather than trying to jump onboard wholesale. Julia is a wonderful >> language and it's very usable for many things, but you shouldn't expect >> that you can do all (or even most) of your work in Julia unless you're >> confident that you can do the development work required to implement any >> functionality that you find to be missing. Depending on your specific >> interests, you might find that Julia is missing nothing or you might find >> that Julia is missing everything. >> >> -- John >> >> On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 7:27:52 AM UTC-7, J.Z. wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have been following julia for some time and have seen lots of positive >>> comments. There are still lots of good work being put into its development. >>> I use R and Python to do lots of technical (statistical) computing and >>> would like to try julia for my work. My quick question to the current users >>> and developers is that whether it is a good time to learn julia now, or >>> should I wait until the language is more mature? Could it be the case that >>> things I learn now would be broken in future releases and I have to relearn >>> everything? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> JZ >>> >>
