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Comment by tagrun

Telling what? Did you actually listen to the talk that you linked to, or read the top comment there by Chris Rackauckas?

> Given all that, outside of depending heavily on DifferentialEquations.jl, I don't know why someone would pick Julia over Python + Rust.

See his last slide. And no, they didn't replace their Julia use in its entirety with Rust, despite his organization being a Rust shop. Considering Rust as a replacement for Julia makes as much sense to me as to considering C as a replacement for Mathematica; Julia and Mathematica are domain specific (scientific computation) languages, not general systems programming languages.

Neither Julia nor Mathematica is a good fit for embedded device programming.

I also find it amusing how you criticize Julia while praising Python (which was originally a "toy" scripting language succeeding ABC, but found some accidental "gaps" to fit in historically) within the narrative that you built.

> In any non-toy Julia program that's not going to be the case.

Why?

parent tagrun 1 year ago

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