[julia-users] Re: THANKS to Julia core developers!

2014-12-09 Thread David Smith
Hear hear! I hope the sheer number of contributors back to the language is evidence of how appreciative we all are to have Julia. And besides the language being great, the community is really extraordinary. Beers are on me if you guys find yourselves in Nashville. On Monday, December 8, 20

[julia-users] Re: THANKS to Julia core developers!

2014-12-11 Thread Tomas Lycken
I have to chime in here too. Although the language is in many ways fantastic (and, on top of that, growing even better, fast), the community surrounding it is probably the best corner of the internet I'll ever point my browser to. The other day I told a couple of co-workers about how discussion

[julia-users] Re: THANKS to Julia core developers!

2014-12-12 Thread ivo welch
You mean it's better than even the R guys? Maintaining culture in the long run will be hard.

[julia-users] Re: THANKS to Julia core developers!

2014-12-16 Thread Tomas Lycken
I don't know about the R community at all - I came here from the general direction of Matlab and Python. Regarding maintaining this culture, I haven't yet seen any signs that we should worry - but of course, that's because what I *have* seen is that most of the people that are deeply involved a

[julia-users] Re: THANKS to Julia core developers!

2014-12-18 Thread Michael Louwrens
Adding my sentiments here too. I went from C#, Matlab -> Java (University and project requirements) -> Python -> Julia Julia has been the only language where I have felt free to do as I please! There was a bit of swearing until I figured out how to properly make use of templates and modules. N