Talk:Julia (programming language): Difference between revisions

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:The drawbacks of Julia are pretty obvious, they are mostly inherited from drawbacks of its paradigms and design choices. For example, there is a compile time attached to pretty much everything you do in Julia for the first time, because it's a compiled language. So the fact that we refer to ahead-of-time compilation is a big hint towards that. We could create a section and populate it with these drawbacks, however. For reference, Python doesn't have a section like that either, nor is the text particularly hinting at its disadvantages. [[User:Bruno H Vieira|Bruno H Vieira]] ([[User talk:Bruno H Vieira|talk]]) 14:50, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

::As you say Python has no drawback section, and its pros and cons are somewhat opposite to Julia. Julia however also has an interpreter, a non-default and undocumented... --compile=min option to enable it so you can get roughly Python behavior, avoiding that "compile" overhead. Language (by default) can have only either or, and and both have pros and cons. There is a third hybrid option "tiered compilation"[https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/tiered-compilation-preview-in-net-core-2-1/] (also with pros and cons, while trying to get most of the pros minimizing the cons) in C#, not yet in Julia. [[User:Comp.arch|comp.arch]] ([[User talk:Comp.arch|talk]])

Following up on this. The article seems to read as an advertisement right now, most egregiously/noticeably the [[Julia (programming language)#Notable uses|Notable uses]] section. Would be great to have another editor check this. For starters, I would add a criticism section, note drawbacks in various sections, and "neutralize" the tone in several parts of the article.