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335 mentions on Hacker News by 178 people: 42 stories, 293 comments · first 2012-02-18 · latest 2026-10-12

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  1. As to (1), all the bugs Yuri filed seem to be fixed, save https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/39385 , for which there is a largish PR that's still wending it's way to being merged. All the bugs he listed as "filed by others" also…
    comment by staplung · 2026-10-12 · in Calculus with Julia
  2. …can be fixed. But ideally not by a culture that dismisses them as inevitable or unimportant. [0] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/39183 [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/26f2333686ce90331548...
    comment by Intralexical · 2026-09-04 · in How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language
  3. I also just added these to Julia for 1.14 ( https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/60311 ).
    comment by KenoFischer · 2026-07-07 · in C++ Details of Asymmetric Fences
  4. Not adding it until complete, but https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/60439 is the draft.
    comment by adgjlsfhk1 · 2025-12-20 · in Zmij: Faster floating point double-to-string conversion
  5. Also Julia, https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia And https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig or e.g. https://github.com/haydenridd/silvia-pid-board
    comment by johnsea · 2025-11-28 · in Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
  6. …other points can be addressed in the repo. Looking forward for your OrcCompileLayer in TPDE! [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/58950
    comment by weliveindetail · 2025-09-30 · in Using the TPDE codegen back end in LLVM ORC
  7. The incorrect example of julia's documentation was fixed 2021: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/f31ef767ef9cb0eb1d... As an experiment, I would be interested to see if somebody would make a 1-based python list-like data structure…
    comment by Alexander-Barth · 2025-09-30 · in Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem (2022)
  8. …can uniformly sample floats between 0 and 1 correctly, and all of them, and do it faster. [0] see https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/stdlib/Random... rand(r::AbstractRNG, ::SamplerTrivial{CloseOpen01_64}) = rand(r,…
    comment by FabHK · 2025-05-07 · in Perfect Random Floating-Point Numbers
  9. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/57483 yes, yes it should.
    comment by adgjlsfhk1 · 2025-02-21 · in New horizons for Julia
  10. …to be implimented with a lot less pain. I got very nerd sniped on this this week leading to https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/56030 and https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/55913 which allow allocation removal in a number of cases…
    comment by adgjlsfhk1 · 2024-10-08 · in Julia 1.11 Highlights
  11. …seem to be a strong mindset for correctness either. See [2] for a collection of such issues. [1]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/39367 [2]: https://yuri.is/not-julia/
    comment by SkiFire13 · 2024-08-29 · in From Julia to Rust (2021)
  12. Julia's random number generator does this. See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/94a0ee8637b66ab67445...
    comment by adgjlsfhk1 · 2024-06-09 · in Zero Tolerance for Bias
  13. > You clearly didn't understand the statement you are replying to. You sure about that? https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/af545b90c5657e0e210a...
    comment by samatman · 2024-05-20 · in Calculus with Julia
  14. …started in 2009 (I don't know how far before it was planned). Why is it new and Python 3 old? https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/a9cbc036ac62dc5ba5...
    comment by remram · 2024-05-17 · in You probably don't need to validate UTF-8 strings
  15. I don't believe there is any official documentation on this, but https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/49430 for example added prefetching to the marking phase of a GC which saw speedups on x86, but not on M1. It should be pretty easy to…
    comment by adgjlsfhk1 · 2024-02-29 · in Optimize sgemm on RISC-V platform
  16. …lisps of course lack UFCS. see here for a discussion on the lack of UFCS in julia: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/31779 so to sum up the answer to the original question: because it's only obvious how to make it nice and tidy like
    comment by igorbark · 2024-02-19 · in Dart 3.3
  17. …and it is basically implemented by casting x to an integer, adding 1, and casting it back. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/3120989f39bb7ef7863c...
    comment by FabHK · 2024-01-02 · in Why does integer representation of a floating point approximate its logarithm?
  18. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/release-1.10/NEWS.md
    comment by pella · 2023-12-27 · in Julia 1.10 Highlights
  19. …to wait till 1.11, though you can test it with nightly builds which is available on julialang site: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/51435 The discussion seems to be too deep in Julia internals for me to follow. Is this about…
    comment by jampekka · 2023-12-04 · in Potential of the Julia programming language for high energy physics computing
  20. …to wait till 1.11, though you can test it with nightly builds which is available on julialang site: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/51435 Unfortunately, the core devs are not too chatty about standalone binaries, because of how…
    comment by amj7e · 2023-12-04 · in Potential of the Julia programming language for high energy physics computing
  21. …Apparently now `jemalloc` will call `MADV_DONTNEED` 10 seconds after `MADV_FREE`: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/51086#issuecomment... So while this "fixes" the issue, it'll introduce a confusing time delay between you freeing th
    comment by nh2 · 2023-11-29 · in Rust std fs slower than Python? No, it's hardware
  22. …itself didnt have a reproducible build. All I know now is that github issue is still not closed. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/34753
    comment by wdkrnls · 2023-11-25 · in Strategies for making reproducible research the norm
  23. …it's too hard (arguably impossible) to write correctly. My proposal for what to do instead is at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/50641 . Another common theme is that while Julia is great at composition, it's not clear what's…
    comment by KenoFischer · 2023-11-19 · in Julia as a unifying end-to-end workflow language on the Frontier exascale system
  24. Doesn't musl have the same issue? https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/34726#issuecomment... I also wonder about OSX's libc. Newer versions seem to have some sort of locking https://github.com/apple-open-source-mirror/Libc/blob/master.…
    comment by krackers · 2023-10-20 · in Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy
  25. …https://github.com/JuliaDebug/Debugger.jl [7]: https://timholy.github.io/Revise.jl/stable/ [8]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/49117 [9]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/49959 [10]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/4…
    comment by suavesito · 2023-09-09 · in Julia and Mojo Mandelbrot Benchmark
  26. See also https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/50137 and https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/50013 that improve the sweeping (the linked PR is only the mark phase)
    comment by adgjlsfhk1 · 2023-06-22 · in Julia 1.10 will have multithreaded garbage collection
  27. …that's written in a Scheme, the REPL is a normal Julia standard library written in Julia itself: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/stdlib/REPL/s...
    comment by sundarurfriend · 2023-06-01 · in What are the enduring innovations of Lisp? (2022)
  28. …this change [3][4]. Shout out to Valentin Churavy for driving this on the Julia front! [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/06d4cf072db24ca6df... [2] https://parca.dev/ [3] https://github.com/parca-dev/parca-demo/pull/37 [4]…
    comment by brancz · 2023-05-10 · in Julia 1.9
  29. …here's the one for Julia 1.10 (goes without saying that it's incomplete, subject to change, etc.): https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/NEWS.md
    comment by sundarurfriend · 2023-05-10 · in Julia 1.9
  30. …it took about 100 seconds to load and some GC improvements dropped that to about 50 in v1.9 betas ( https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/49185#issuecomment-1... ) back a few months ago, while 3 weeks ago a change reported improving it…
    comment by ChrisRackauckas · 2023-05-10 · in Julia 1.9
  31. The release was just cut 9 hours ago, as shown on the releases part of the Github page ( https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/releases/tag/v1.9.0 ). That then starts the jobs for the creation and deployment of the final binaries, and when…
    comment by ChrisRackauckas · 2023-05-08 · in GPU vendor-agnostic fluid dynamics solver in Julia
  32. Julia is finally going to start storing generated native code on disk in Julia 1.9: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/47184
    comment by markkitti · 2023-05-05 · in Mojo – a new programming language for AI developers
  33. …at runtime. Also on a related topic, the PR for parallel GC in Julia just merged 4 days ago ( https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/48600 ), so GC is in the process of getting a bunch faster.
    comment by adgjlsfhk1 · 2023-05-02 · in Mojo – a new programming language for AI developers
  34. sin/cos commonly use 2 different 5th degree polynomials (depending on quadrant of the sin graph) https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/bb83df1d61fb649efd15...
    comment by adgjlsfhk1 · 2023-04-21 · in Revisiting the Fast Inverse Square Root – Is It Still Useful?
  35. …ps://github.com/JuliaStats/Distributions.jl ), etc. Julia Base even has had over 1,300 contributors ( https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia ) which is quite a lot for a core language, and that's mostly because the majority of the core is in…
    comment by ChrisRackauckas · 2023-02-28 · in ML would have advanced faster if another front-end language had been adopted?
  36. …just today there was a PR that was merged that makes Julia cache and reuse binaries of packages ( https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/47184 ). It won't be out until the next release of Julia, but it's a pretty major improvement to not…
    comment by ChrisRackauckas · 2022-12-27 · in Extending Python with Rust
  37. …request addressing compilation based latency. I hope to hear more about these ongoing efforts. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/47184 [2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/44527
    comment by markkitti · 2022-12-15 · in Startups are building with the Julia Programming Language
  38. …(5x+ improvement in times) in the next version (1.9). Via cachine of the native compiled code. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/47184#issuecomment-1...
    comment by thetwentyone · 2022-12-13 · in Startups are building with the Julia Programming Language
  39. …passes the piped-in value as the first argument to the subsequent function. [2] [3] [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/24990 [2] https://www.r-bloggers.com/2021/05/the-new-r-pipe/ [3] https://michaelbarrowman.co.uk/post/the-new-bas…
    comment by sundarurfriend · 2022-12-11 · in Elixir-style pipelines in Ruby
  40. …am with you on that one, and actually opened a Base Julia issue about it way before your blog post: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/36517 . It requires a Base Julia fix though, so that's a bit out of my hands. Also, I think it…
    comment by ChrisRackauckas · 2022-12-08 · in What's Great about Julia?
  41. some of the error messages are about to get much better (see https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/46372 ). I find Julia to be pretty good for interactive work, but there definitely are some rough edges that still need smoothing.
    comment by adgjlsfhk1 · 2022-08-18 · in Julia 1.8
  42. …available for download (yet), so I assume that is your requirement for the "release", correct? [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/releases/tag/v1.8.0
    comment by extesy · 2022-08-17 · in Julia v1.8 Release Notes
  43. …that the JET.jl and other new analysis passes can help with, along with the new effects system (see https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/43852 , this is a pretty huge new compiler feature in v1.8, but right now it's manually specified…
    comment by ChrisRackauckas · 2022-07-07 · in Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance
  44. …make it mainstream. Thankfully, there's already prototype PRs that are well underway, for example https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/43573 automatically stack-allocates small arrays which can prove certain escape properties,…
    comment by ChrisRackauckas · 2022-07-07 · in Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance
  45. It is from the top comment in https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/41096
    comment by jakobnissen · 2022-06-26 · in Why I still recommend Julia
  46. …eventually becomes release notes, and then post release, we put together a highlights blog post. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/NEWS.md
    comment by ViralBShah · 2022-06-26 · in Why I still recommend Julia
  47. …do what I think they do" from that sentence. Are you referring to one (already fixed) bug[0]? [0]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/41096
    comment by Sukera · 2022-06-26 · in Why I still recommend Julia
  48. …stream of lies about these topics, which has left them less inclined to post about them. [0]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/41096 [1]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/39460 [2]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issue…
    comment by anonymoushn · 2022-06-26 · in Why I still recommend Julia
  49. …take this opportunity to promote my suggestion, I think its a good one, that will make Julia nicer https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/37187
    comment by systems · 2022-06-26 · in Why I still recommend Julia
  50. …mentioned, the ones still open can be categorized as (1) aliasing problems with mutable vectors https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/39385 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/39460 (2) not handling OffsetArrays correctly…
    comment by Mathnerd314 · 2022-06-23 · in Julia ranks in the top 5 most loved programming languages for 2022