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OffsetArrays.jl
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Why I am switching my programming language to 1-based array indexing.
Well, there is OffsetArrays in Julia, but it has acquired a reputation as a poison pill because most code assumes the 1-based indexing and it's easy to forget to convert the indexing and screw up the code.
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The Julia language has a number of correctness flaws
Similar correctness issues are a big part of the reason that, several years ago, I submitted a series of pull requests to Julia so that its entire test suite would run without memory errors under Valgrind, save for a few that either (i) we understood and wrote suppressions for, or (ii) we did not understand and had open issues for. Unfortunately, no one ever integrated Valgrind into the CI system, so the test suite no longer fully runs under it, last time I checked. (The test suite took nearly a day to run under Valgrind on a fast desktop machine when it worked, so is infeasible for every pull request, but could be done periodically, e.g. once every few days.)
Even a revived effort on getting core Julia tests to pass under Valgrind would not do much to help catch correctness bugs due to composing different packages in the ecosystem. For that, running in testing with `--check-bounds=yes` is probably a better solution, and much quicker to execute as well. (see e.g. https://github.com/JuliaArrays/OffsetArrays.jl/issues/282)
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Why does Julia adopt 1-based index?
Counting starts at one, as do most vector/matrix/tensor indices. If it bothers you too much, see OffsetArrays.jl and Arrays with custom indices.
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No need for another version, Julia supports custom indices by default. Check out https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/offset-arrays/ and https://github.com/JuliaArrays/OffsetArrays.jl
StatsBase.jl
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Downloading packages to Julia 0.7
so finally I tried running Pkg.add(Pkg.PackageSpec(url="https://github.com/JuliaStats/StatsBase.jl", rev="v0.24.0")) but encountered an error saying in needed to download dependencies like DataStructures.
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R user excited about Julia
The author identified some bugs and those were fixed. But they were all edge cases or footguns that are obviously bad to do, but allowed because Julia is a flexible language. For example, in this issue, the author overwrites the array they are sampling from. Which is obviously going to produce bad results.
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Julia ranks in the top most loved programming languages for 2022
Well, out of the issues 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 https://github.com/JuliaStats/StatsBase.jl/issues/646, https://github.com/JuliaStats/StatsBase.jl/issues/638, https://github.com/JuliaStats/Distributions.jl/issues/1265 https://github.com/JuliaStats/StatsBase.jl/issues/643 (3) bad interaction of buffering and I/O redirection https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/36069 (4) a type dispatch bug https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/41096
So if you avoid mutable vectors and OffsetArrays you should generally be fine.
As far as the argument "Julia is really buggy so it's unusable", I think this can be made for any language - e.g. rand is not random enough, Java's binary search algorithm had an overflow, etc. The fixed issues have tests added so they won't happen again. Maybe copying the test suites from libraries in other languages would have caught these issues earlier, but a new system will have more bugs than a mature system so some amount of bugginess is unavoidable.
- The Julia language has a number of correctness flaws
What are some alternatives?
StarWarsArrays.jl - Arrays indexed as the order of Star Wars movies
Lux.jl - Explicitly Parameterized Neural Networks in Julia
TwoBasedIndexing.jl - Two-based indexing
Petalisp - Elegant High Performance Computing
Optimization.jl - Mathematical Optimization in Julia. Local, global, gradient-based and derivative-free. Linear, Quadratic, Convex, Mixed-Integer, and Nonlinear Optimization in one simple, fast, and differentiable interface.
TailRec.jl - A tail recursion optimization macro for julia.
Enzyme.jl - Julia bindings for the Enzyme automatic differentiator
julia - The Julia Programming Language
DSGE.jl - Solve and estimate Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium models (including the New York Fed DSGE)
evcxr
diffrax - Numerical differential equation solvers in JAX. Autodifferentiable and GPU-capable. https://docs.kidger.site/diffrax/