So can I ask for some honest advice?
Sure
With the obvious caveats understood, how far away is a 1.0?
This is a hard one to answer. I think we're doing a lot of the big changes
we've been wanting to do in 0.4, but of course there's always a lot more
stuff to do. If I had to guess, I'd say a 2 year time frame for a 1.0
release is not unreasonable, but that's just my guess.
How long can the core team continue its dedication to the development of
Julia?
That I am pretty sure should be the least of your concerns. At least Jeff,
Stefan and Viral have signed on to this for the long haul, and myself I'm
also not planning to go anywhere soon.
Will Julia remain from and for researchers indefinitely?
I actually disagree with that statement originally. Julia is in fact used
in industry for real work, so the answer to that is no ;).
Can you envision Julia being used in large enterprise financial
applications?
I can, but I am not sure we're there yet. As you said, as a startup you
have to be careful allocating your time. If you decide on using Julia,
you'll have to prepared to spend some time on an issues you may encounter
on the way (this is true with any platform, but since Julia is so new, it's
somewhat more likely that you'll hit issues and not find appropriate
guidance online).
Hope that helps some.
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 7:13 AM, Eric Forgy eric.fo...@gmail.com wrote:
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
