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wuggen · 1 year ago

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I have heard tell of Julia but I've never used it. On a quick glance I'm seeing (a) 1-based array indexing, (b) significant whitespace, and (c) implicit mutable aliasing, so probably fuck this language, it doesn't deserve the name

what is the hipster's interpreted imperative programming language, like... what's the 'you know, you should really rewrite your python lib in xyz, it's the python and nodejs killer for real.’

Maybe Julia? At the very least, I knew many people in grad school who loudly evangelized for replacing R and Python with Julia.

oh yeah ive heard of that. (also @wuggen i need your opinion have u used julia and is it an honor to have it share ur name or does it do no justice to the julia set)

#I could also ding it for dynamic types but *sighhhh* I begrudgingly accept that people like that shit for some reason #(and I mean I guess some people also like significant whitespace and implicit aliasing but they're wrong. I refuse to budge on those things #also multiple dispatch is weird and messy and I don't especially like it #also first-class syntactic support for a built-in semver type??? that's fuckin wacky wtf #credit where it's due though‚ you *can* actually do some static typing in Julia it looks like #and it's not just a placebo like python's type hints lmao #the 'do' syntax for inline function arguments is kinda nifty‚ I think I like that #and no implicit nulls! we love to see language designers moving beyond implicit nulls #also I mean. I guess implicit aliasing is just kinda the expected state of affairs in interpreted imperative languages huh :////

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