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  1. …versions check my github issue if you want to know more what I mean by off putting scoping rules https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/37187
    comment by systems · 2021-03-08 · in Julia: A Post-Mortem
  2. …package ceremony on top if you want (Python has dozen or so available, so lots to draw from). [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4600 [2] https://github.com/Roger-luo/FromFile.jl/blob/master/src/Fro...
    comment by jampekka · 2021-02-14 · in Julia 1.6: what has changed since Julia 1.0?
  3. …on arrays with any number of dimensions. And is completely indifferent to where the indices start: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/37367/files#diff-eb9...
    comment by improbable22 · 2021-02-13 · in Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down
  4. …reality we're faced with and it just feels like a huge missed opportunity and bums me out. end 1. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/16260#issuecomment-2... 2. https://groups.google.com/g/julia-dev/c/tNN72FnYbYQ?pli=1 3.…
    comment by ZeroCool2u · 2021-02-12 · in Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down
  5. …custom transforms. AD is a subset of the transformations they are endeavouring to support. E.g. see https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/33955 Generally speaking, if there is any sort of code transformation pass that's needed for AD but…
    comment by eigenspace · 2021-01-22 · in Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation
  6. It's also funny that a new language like Julia chose to go the 1-based route. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/558 It seems clearly the motivation was to be in line with other mathematical languages. But then time and again I see…
    comment by laichzeit0 · 2021-01-20 · in Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing
  7. …parser is actually written in femtolisp: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/eval/#dev-parsing https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/src/julia-par...
    comment by retzkek · 2021-01-19 · in Lispsyntax.jl: A Clojure-like Lisp syntax for julia
  8. …development project :-) [1]: https://github.com/JeffBezanson/phdthesis/blob/master/main.p... [2]: https://github.com/julialang/julia/issues/8839
    comment by ssivark · 2020-12-17 · in Research in Programming Languages (2012)
  9. It has been reported that Julia runs just fine under Rosetta. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/36617#issuecomment...
    comment by ViralBShah · 2020-11-28 · in Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective
  10. …a lot of work going into fixing latency issues and improving load times of packages generally: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3Al...
    comment by stabbles · 2020-10-21 · in Why Does Julia Work So Well?
  11. …tasklocal RNG in Julia. That necessitates a smaller RNG, and we'll probably land on xoshiro256 Ref: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/34852
    comment by jakobnissen · 2020-10-15 · in A Family of Better Random Number Generators
  12. …did improve those over LLVM 10 (which had noticeable regressions versus LLVM 9). As an example see https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/37915#issuecomment...
    comment by wallnuss · 2020-10-12 · in LLVM 11.0
  13. I suspect https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/29700 might be one of them. As the original post states, rounding is (a) amenable to hardware acceleration, (b) easy to get wrong or slow, and (c) possible to test exhaustively.
    comment by raphlinus · 2020-10-11 · in There are only four billion floats, so test them all (2014)
  14. …calculations to a more abstracted version, which is generic to offsets & number of dimensions: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/37367/files#diff-29c...
    comment by improbable22 · 2020-10-10 · in The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language
  15. …there. I'd imagine you can build some data parallel libraries already with web workers API. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/31086
    comment by tkf · 2020-10-07 · in A quick introduction to data parallelism in Julia
  16. …bit of fragmentation and hurts composability. There's an open issue for this with some background: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5571
    comment by nextos · 2020-10-06 · in A quick introduction to data parallelism in Julia
  17. …with. Opt-in could be a good idea, although as usual, the issue is scaling and verification. [0] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia
    comment by staticfloat · 2020-09-30 · in DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source
  18. …the debugger in VSCode Digging deeper, at least one of the PRs [1] is based on a 2018 paper [2] [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/29240 [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10941
    comment by igg · 2020-08-04 · in Julia 1.5 Highlights
  19. …to the article, here's a bug in mod2pi that was probably triggered by 80 bit extended floats: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8799
    comment by FabHK · 2020-07-14 · in The Floppy Disk of Floating Point
  20. …of defining numerical in the language. All the built-in types are defined in Julia. Check out https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/381693d3dfc9b7072707... Still for interactive things it can be a bit slow still. I’d recommend using…
    comment by elcritch · 2020-04-21 · in Ask HN: Which programming language has the best `number' implementation?
  21. …and the corresponding glibc malloc tunables. I have commented with some details there: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/30653#issuecomment...
    comment by nh2 · 2020-03-25 · in Julia 1.4
  22. …2, 2018 v0.7.0-rc3 - Aug 7, 2018 v1.0.0-rc1 - Aug 7, 2018 v0.7.0 - Aug 8, 2018 v1.0.0 - Aug 9, 2018 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/releases
    comment by kgwgk · 2020-03-23 · in Julia 1.4
  23. See this issue: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/30653#issuecomment... Memory leak. As explained, it's not really Julia's fault. This I also found amazing: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/28726 . It took 4 hours to go…
    comment by ced · 2020-03-22 · in Julia 1.4
  24. Julia v1.4 Release Notes : https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v1.4.0/NEWS.md
    comment by pella · 2020-03-22 · in Julia 1.4
  25. …that it's hard to predict what allocates and what doesn't, and that this is still changing (e.g. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/32448 )
    comment by gugagore · 2020-02-10 · in JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming Language
  26. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/17108 only implements the REPL part but it’s a start. “Downloadable Windows LA REPL” was a criteria Julia met within ~6-8 months of public release, and it was one of the reasons I got involved even…
    comment by ihnorton · 2020-01-21 · in Femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation
  27. …thought perhaps you might find this fascinating for the levels of make hackery to try to untangle: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/compare/master...vtjnash:...
    comment by manwe150 · 2019-12-19 · in An opinionated approach to GNU Make
  28. …on again and again, but many refuse to show willingness to fix or even acknowledge the problem: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/28092 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/17285 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4452…
    comment by svnpenn · 2019-11-26 · in Machine Learning on Encrypted Data Without Decrypting It
  29. …page [1] for the v1.3 binaries. I think julialang.org/downloads has not yet been updated. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/releases
    comment by chrispeel · 2019-11-26 · in Julia v1.3
  30. Release notes here, quite a few changes in the standard library: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v1.2.0/NEWS.md
    comment by kensai · 2019-08-21 · in Julia v1.2 has been released
  31. Julia came before Crystal? https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/graphs/contributors https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/graphs/contributors Also, there's a lot of stuff that Julia has which Crystal doesn't (and vice versa since they…
    comment by ChrisRackauckas · 2019-08-20 · in Julia v1.2
  32. Release notes: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v1.2.0/NEWS.md
    comment by cbkeller · 2019-08-20 · in Julia v1.2
  33. Are startup times really your problem? Consider https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/30044 You can manually enable buffering of the pipe endpoints. Otherwise julia will be super-duper-slow when part of a pipe.
    comment by leiroigh · 2019-08-19 · in Giving up on Julia (2016)
  34. …issue opened in our github tracker to help figure out whats going wrong. Feel free to open one at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia
    comment by staticfloat · 2019-08-18 · in Giving up on Julia (2016)
  35. its a systemic problem, not just startup time: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/32198
    comment by svnpenn · 2019-08-18 · in Giving up on Julia (2016)
  36. See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/32859#issuecomment-5... for the status on a future non-macro printf. For now, there is of course also packages available like https://github.com/JuliaIO/Formatting.jl .
    comment by kristofferc · 2019-08-18 · in Giving up on Julia (2016)
  37. …are now a top priority (see my other comment). Some work has already been done but not yet merged: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/31954 .
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2019-08-02 · in JuliaCon 2019 Videos
  38. …clear technical writing; it's hard to find the time when there's so much other work to be done. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/31954 [2] can't find the PR now but part of a GSoC project
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2019-08-02 · in JuliaCon 2019 Videos
  39. …I am waiting for proper GNN support[4] in FluxML, but seems not much interest in it. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/milestone/30 [2] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-2-0-rc2-is-now-av... [3]…
    comment by xvilka · 2019-07-12 · in Statistics with Julia [pdf]
  40. JuliaLang + WASM issues: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/search?o=desc&q=wasm&s=up...
    comment by pella · 2019-07-09 · in Mozilla is funding a way to support Julia in Firefox
  41. …https://juliaobserver.com The website is decent. Read the standard library https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/stdlib search github for cool projects https://github.com/JuliaInterop/RCall.jl
    comment by adamnemecek · 2019-06-21 · in Another Book on Data Science – Learn R and Python in Parallel
  42. …do git it another try and experience that again, please open an issue on Github so it can be fixed: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/new
    comment by eigenspace · 2019-06-10 · in Matlab–Python–Julia Cheatsheet
  43. Julia syntax is beautiful, but the REPL on Windows is so slow as to be unusable https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/32198
    comment by svnpenn · 2019-06-05 · in Julia Summer of Einsum
  44. Oh interesting! TIL. I think that probably means that this is UB then: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/d8ff21c69c118e8801e8... --- You can't enable NO_UTF_CHECK in PCRE if you're going to pass data that isn't valid UTF-8. N.B. As…
    comment by burntsushi · 2019-05-30 · in UTF-8 String Indexing Strategies
  45. …seeds the whole state by default: https://docs.rs/rand/0.6.5/rand/ Julia seems to seed 128 bits: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/5741c7f53c5ea443bbd7... However, your statement seems to apply to old languages: C# uses only 32 bits…
    comment by whyever · 2019-04-23 · in Modern C++ Won't Save Us
  46. …'(1 2)) (1 . 2) [1]: https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp [2]: https://julialang.org/ [3]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/d76a30a7178dd1e9b744...
    comment by ninjin · 2019-03-19 · in Kilo LISP
  47. I just hope they remove the awful @threads macro with https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/22631 Developing anything multithreaded was a major pain.
    comment by roknovosel · 2019-02-23 · in Why Julia
  48. …library [1], are you saying that this kronecker product didn't do the job? [1] search in this file: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/stdlib/Linear...
    comment by FabHK · 2019-02-23 · in Why Julia
  49. > We have chosen 1 to be more similar to existing math software. https://github.com/julialang/julia/issues/558#issuecomment-4...
    comment by est31 · 2019-02-14 · in Moving from Ruby to Rust
  50. …and floats are tricky, and the combination is tricky, unsurprisingly. See this discussion here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/16344
    comment by FabHK · 2019-02-09 · in Fixing Random