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julia reviews and mentions

• Top Paying Programming Technologies 2024
  19 projects | dev.to | 6 Mar 2024

  34. Julia - $74,963

• Optimize sgemm on RISC-V platform
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Feb 2024

  I don't believe there is any official documentation on this, but https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/49430 for example added prefetching to the marking phase of a GC which saw speedups on x86, but not on M1.

• Dart 3.3
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2024

  3. dispatch on all the arguments

  the first solution is clean, but people really like dispatch.

  the second makes calling functions in the function call syntax weird, because the first argument is privileged semantically but not syntactically.

  the third makes calling functions in the method call syntax weird because the first argument is privileged syntactically but not semantically.

  the closest things to this i can think of off the top of my head in remotely popular programming languages are: nim, lisp dialects, and julia.

  nim navigates the dispatch conundrum by providing different ways to define free functions for different dispatch-ness. the tutorial gives a good overview: https://nim-lang.org/docs/tut2.html

  lisps of course lack UFCS.

  see here for a discussion on the lack of UFCS in julia: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/31779

  so to sum up the answer to the original question: because it's only obvious how to make it nice and tidy like you're wanting if you sacrifice function dispatch, which is ubiquitous for good reason!

• Julia 1.10 Highlights
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2023

  https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/release-1.10/NEWS.md

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  4 projects | dev.to | 7 Dec 2023

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• Potential of the Julia programming language for high energy physics computing
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Dec 2023

  No. It runs natively on ARM.

  julia> versioninfo() Julia Version 1.9.3 Commit bed2cd540a1 (2023-08-24 14:43 UTC) Build Info: Official https://julialang.org/ release

• Rust std:fs slower than Python
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Nov 2023

  https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/51086#issuecomment...

  So while this "fixes" the issue, it'll introduce a confusing time delay between you freeing the memory and you observing that in `htop`.

  But according to https://jemalloc.net/jemalloc.3.html you can set `opt.muzzy_decay_ms = 0` to remove the delay.

  Still, the musl author has some reservations against making `jemalloc` the default:

  https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2018/04/23/2

  > It's got serious bloat problems, problems with undermining ASLR, and is optimized pretty much only for being as fast as possible without caring how much memory you use.

  With the above-mentioned tunables, this should be mitigated to some extent, but the general "theme" (focusing on e.g. performance vs memory usage) will likely still mean "it's a tradeoff" or "it's no tradeoff, but only if you set tunables to what you need".

• Eleven strategies for making reproducible research the norm
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2023

  I have asked about Julia's reproducibility story on the Guix mailing list in the past, and at the time Simon Tournier didn't think it was promising. I seem to recall Julia itself didnt have a reproducible build. All I know now is that github issue is still not closed.

  https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/34753

• Julia as a unifying end-to-end workflow language on the Frontier exascale system
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Nov 2023

  I don't really know what kind of rebuttal you're looking for, but I will link my HN comments from when this was first posted for some thoughts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31396861#31398796. As I said, in the linked post, I'm quite skeptical of the business of trying to assess relative buginess of programming in different systems, because that has strong dependencies on what you consider core vs packages and what exactly you're trying to do.

  However, bugs in general suck and we've been thinking a fair bit about what additional tooling the language could provide to help people avoid the classes of bugs that Yuri encountered in the post.

  The biggest class of problems in the blog post, is that it's pretty clear that `@inbounds` (and I will extend this to `@assume_effects`, even though that wasn't around when Yuri wrote his post) is problematic, because it's too hard to write. My proposal for what to do instead is at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/50641.

  Another common theme is that while Julia is great at composition, it's not clear what's expected to work and what isn't, because the interfaces are informal and not checked. This is a hard design problem, because it's quite close to the reasons why Julia works well. My current thoughts on that are here: https://github.com/Keno/InterfaceSpecs.jl but there's other proposals also.

• Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2023

  Doesn't musl have the same issue? https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/34726#issuecomment...

  I also wonder about OSX's libc. Newer versions seem to have some sort of locking https://github.com/apple-open-source-mirror/Libc/blob/master...

  but older versions (from 10.9) don't have any lockign: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/Libc/blob/Libc-99...

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