Did #julialang end up kinda stalling or at least plateau-ing lower than hoped? (hachyderm.io)

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Did #julialang end up kinda stalling or at least plateau-ing lower than hoped?

I know it's got its community and dedicated users and has continued development.

But without being in that space, and speculating now at a distance, it seems it might be an interesting case study in a tech/lang that just didn't have landing spot it could arrive at in time as the tech-world & "data science" reshuffled while julia tried to grow ... ?

Can a language ever solve a "two language" problem?

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[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

I still feel like there's space for a MATLAB replacement...

GNU Octave?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Octave

using a language that is mostly compatible with MATLAB

[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

The only benefit Octave has over MATLAB is that it's free. Which is something I guess, but in practice it is MATLAB without the benefits of MATLAB.

It's plotting functionality sucks as much as anything else, it has fairly good toolkit support but not remotely like MATLAB, and it still has the mediocre MATLAB language. Worse - with custom incompatible extensions!

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