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  1. …tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZD3Scuv02g [1] https://mikeinnes.github.io/2020/06/04/iterate.html [2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/37691 [3] https://www.stroustrup.com/P0977-remember-the-vasa.pdf [4]…
    comment by neolog · 2021-06-06 · in From Julia to Rust
  2. …does derive from it. Considering that one of the authors of Julia wrote Julia's front-end in Lisp ( https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/src/julia-par... and some other files in the same directory), it would have been astonishing…
    comment by jhgb · 2021-04-19 · in Test for lists in Cython
  3. Please file an issue describing the situation: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/new
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2021-03-25 · in Julia 1.6 Highlights
  4. Thanks for the report: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/40190 Edit: it's now building: https://github.com/JuliaLang/docs.julialang.org/runs/2196972...
    comment by mbauman · 2021-03-25 · in Julia 1.6 Highlights
  5. …I still hope they will fix scoping not that my suggestion is good, but what they have now is bad https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/37187
    comment by systems · 2021-03-25 · in Julia 1.6 Highlights
  6. …is primarily volunteers and they only have so much bandwidth to help fix compilation issues). [0] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/36617
    comment by staticfloat · 2021-03-25 · in Julia 1.6 Highlights
  7. …that the wonderful packaging system and the folks who work on it are working on it. > `git clone https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia ` and `make` should be enough at this point. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/36617#issuecomment...
    comment by thetwentyone · 2021-03-25 · in Julia 1.6 Highlights
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    Release v1.6.0 of Julia
    story by leephillips · 2021-03-25 · 2 comments
  9. …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
  10. …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?
  11. …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
  12. …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
  13. …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
  14. 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
  15. …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
  16. …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)
  17. 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
  18. …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?
  19. …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
  20. …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
  21. 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)
  22. …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
  23. …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
  24. …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
  25. …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
  26. …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
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    Julia Parser
    story by tosh · 2020-07-28 · 0 comments
  28. …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
  29. ▲ 6
    Show HN: The Julia Language
    story by shirak_untel · 2020-05-28 · 1 comment
  30. …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?
  31. …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
  32. …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
  33. 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
  34. 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
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    Julia 1.4
    story by pella · 2020-03-22 · 133 comments
  36. …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
  37. 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
  38. …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
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    Julia v1.3
    story by Liriel · 2019-11-27 · 5 comments
  40. …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
  41. …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
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    Julia v1.3
    story by threatofrain · 2019-11-26 · 84 comments
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. Release notes: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v1.2.0/NEWS.md
    comment by cbkeller · 2019-08-20 · in Julia v1.2
  46. 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)
  47. …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)
  48. 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)
  49. 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)
  50. …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