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  1. …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
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    A Three-Year Conversation on Vector Transposition Semantics in Julia
    story by adolgert · 2019-07-17 · 0 comments
  3. …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]
  4. 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
  5. …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
  6. …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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. …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
  10. …'(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
  11. 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
  12. …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
  13. > 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
  14. …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
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    Julia v1.1 Release Notes
    story by agumonkey · 2019-01-28 · 19 comments
  16. …it finally gets around to it. But just loading the plotting library (Gadfly) takes over 10 seconds! https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4373 Starting all of Matlab never took that long.
    comment by IshKebab · 2019-01-25 · in GNU Octave: A high-level interactive language for numerical computations [pdf]
  17. …the core language and standard library. That's where it was first posited and implemented, in fact: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8432 (and see the link to the "trait trick")
    comment by 3JPLW · 2019-01-23 · in Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software
  18. …y+1, x) |> x -> join(x, ",") |> length All those anonymous functions seem a bit distracting, though https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/24990 could help with that.
    comment by duckerude · 2019-01-22 · in For the Love of Pipes
  19. …possible in Rust I think. [1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/core/iter/range.rs.html#340-35... [2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/range.jl...
    comment by stabbles · 2018-12-31 · in Comparing Pythagorean triples in C++, D, and Rust
  20. …and this will really improve that experience. Especially since that exception stack PR just merged: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/28878
    comment by eigenspace · 2018-10-23 · in Julia parallel task runtime (WIP)
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    Julia parallel task runtime (WIP)
    story by boromi · 2018-10-23 · 11 comments
  22. …which limit themselves to power-of-2 sizes) This is the most updated that I know of online (2014) https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/6193#issuecomment-61... If the array is large enough for a GPU, then yes a GPU version would rip it…
    comment by ChrisRackauckas · 2018-10-17 · in Why is FFTW written in OCaml and what makes it so fast?
  23. …/ package author nowadays. A long time ago (2014) he did write a Julia-based version of FFTW: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/6193#issuecomment-61... This was back before Julia could do auto-SIMD optimizations, and it got quite…
    comment by ChrisRackauckas · 2018-10-17 · in Why is FFTW written in OCaml and what makes it so fast?
  24. …an MIT programming languages or HPC fellow who proposes it in Julia, and so you get stuff like https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/22631 soon after. That doesn't mean Chapel is bad, but Julia already has the largest contributor base of…
    comment by ChrisRackauckas · 2018-09-11 · in What Is Systems Programming, Really?
  25. …factorizations and sparse matrix methodology. Julia has not and they remain largely under GPL: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/LICENSE.md Look at things like SUITESPARSE. Practically, what that means is that I can deliver…
    comment by kxyvr · 2018-09-07 · in Try OCaml
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    JuliaLang/julia: The Julia Language: A fresh approach to technical computing
    story by axiomdata316 · 2018-08-16 · 1 comment
  27. …If it's any use, you can see what Julia ended up doing here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8188
    comment by simonbyrne · 2018-08-10 · in 1/0 = 0
  28. …In terms of the Julia changes that were needed to support this, there were two key PRs: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/20593 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/22441
    comment by iamed2 · 2018-08-10 · in Julia 1.0
  29. …@threads macro. * However, it does not yet map tasks to threads, but that is very close to ready: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/22631 . We expect this work to be finished in a near-future 1.x release and then Julia will support…
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2018-08-10 · in Julia 1.0
  30. …thinking about this than is probably healthy, but here are some nice edge cases to think about: - https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/14826 mod(-eps(), 4.0) - https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/17415 fld(1.0,0.2) -…
    comment by simonbyrne · 2018-08-10 · in Julia 1.0
  31. …however they want: down, up, to zero, to nearest (with different options for breaking ties). https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9283
    comment by simonbyrne · 2018-08-09 · in Julia 1.0
  32. …wait until 2.0. This is why that syntax hasn't yet been added with the expected meaning. Related: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7026
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2018-08-09 · in Julia 1.0
  33. …and release 1.0 like this, so I'm still assuming there's a mistake or misunderstanding here. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/5d4eaca0c9fa3d555c...
    comment by sundarurfriend · 2018-08-08 · in Julia v1.0 has been released
  34. Edit: It has happened! Relevant pull request: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/28521 Video from Juliacon: https://youtu.be/1jN5wKvN-Uk?t=1h18s --- ~~Note that this is the first release candidate version[1]:~~ > As a prerelease,…
    comment by sundarurfriend · 2018-08-08 · in Julia v1.0 has been released
  35. …1.0 are rather empty at the moment. However, one may refer to the release notes of Julia 0.7 ( https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/release-0.7/NEWS.md ) which was released earlier today. Julia 1.0 is basically the same as 0.7, except…
    comment by photon-torpedo · 2018-08-08 · in Julia v1.0 has been released
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    Julia v1.0 has been released
    story by ellisv · 2018-08-08 · 62 comments
  37. …is already a bit bloated to deal with lots of edge cases, but is still pretty readable in parts: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/broadcas...
    comment by simondanisch · 2018-07-16 · in The Spiral Language
  38. …isn't always that helpful). To decide when inlining should occur, Julia uses a cost model: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/22210 This then tries to only inline what's necessary to do for performance. Of course, using the fact that…
    comment by ChrisRackauckas · 2018-07-14 · in The Spiral Language
  39. …the info from this post: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/feedback-on-inconsistent-n... . And e.g. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/stdlib/Linear... looks like a proper Pkg(3) package? Sorry for misinformation. Thought this…
    comment by johnsea · 2018-07-06 · in Writing Iterators in Julia 0.7
  40. …just that the most cutting-edge technologies do not seem to be developed in MATLAB any more. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia [2] https://github.com/malmaud/TensorFlow.jl
    comment by geoalchimista · 2018-06-28 · in New GPU-Accelerated Supercomputers Change the Balance of Power on the TOP500
  41. It's one of the things being developed on the down low right now, but you can find PRs like: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/24473 which are making this: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/src/interpret... a…
    comment by ChrisRackauckas · 2018-06-02 · in My favorite things that are coming with Julia 1.0
  42. …PCRE2 can't do that. See: https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20180412.091038.080cf6... and https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/26731
    comment by burntsushi · 2018-05-16 · in Unicode Regular Expressions
  43. …the Julia thread on tco - and difficulties with providing guarantees in the general case with tco: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4964
    comment by e12e · 2018-03-17 · in Tail recursion in Python
  44. …was made was "Julia v0.7.0 Release Notes", which you can confirm from this snapshot of 4 days ago: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/eb94b8c3d8e8ee2294ed... . This suggests that you did not even click on the link to learn more about…
    comment by eesmith · 2018-02-09 · in Julia v0.7.0 Release Notes
  45. …would be a 2.0 (or later) feature addition, and it's not yet certain how it would be approached. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6975 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5
    comment by 3JPLW · 2018-02-08 · in Julia v0.7.0 Release Notes
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    Julia v0.7.0 Release Notes
    story by kmisiunas · 2018-02-08 · 60 comments
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    Julia Dependent Types Debate (2014)
    story by thinkpad20 · 2018-02-07 · 0 comments
  48. …(for various reasons, eg: factorial of a negative number - might be defined as negative infinity): https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6579
    comment by e12e · 2017-12-16 · in Clean – A functional programming language
  49. …semantics of the language by bifurcating the type system into two incompatible kinds of values. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/21912
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2017-10-17 · in Some Insights from a Julia Developer
  50. …[2] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#languagex [3] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/test/perf/sho...
    comment by ihnorton · 2017-10-15 · in Some Insights from a Julia Developer