How an MIT research project became a global programming language
23 points by theanonymousone 4 days ago | 1 comments

maxall4 8 minutes ago
I really want to like Julia. It has a nice type system, a good ecosystem, reasonable syntax, and it’s far faster than Python. But there are several issues with its DX that prevent me from using it: the most severe of which being the complete lack of a cache for the JIT (or JIT like system), inducing multi second compile times for scripts that run in <100ms. There are some external packages that try to solve this issue, but they are far from first-party quality, and, in my experience, are quite buggy.

(I last tried Julia a few years ago; perhaps this has been improved since?)

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