Every time Julia pops up I can't help but get disappointed all over again. I was so intrigued by multiple aspects of the language, and even the type system seemed promising at first. However the inability to subtype concrete types is a total dealbreaker for me.
Everything else - even much of the type system - is extremely interesting. However the inability to subtype concrete types means you are essentially stuck with the unfortunately common inability to trivially specify how the heck your program is modeling your problem.
I just want the ability to specify an Apple_Count is not an Orange_Count without having to define my own damn operators. Why do so many languages make this so hard?
And Julia was so close, until one little sentence moved it so far away.
Everything else - even much of the type system - is extremely interesting. However the inability to subtype concrete types means you are essentially stuck with the unfortunately common inability to trivially specify how the heck your program is modeling your problem.
I just want the ability to specify an Apple_Count is not an Orange_Count without having to define my own damn operators. Why do so many languages make this so hard?
And Julia was so close, until one little sentence moved it so far away.