Debugging is something I could not do as easily in Julia vs debugonce and trace in R. Compiling takes time.
But so far we have seen great development. Flux is a truly beautiful ml library. Being a compiled language remove a lot of headache when building production images. The syntax, the full utf support in variable name. Package management is great. Having that abstraction layer between CPU, GPU so you don't have to rewrite code. Dispatch based on signature, type management. I don't see it going away soon. It took me 13 years to make them transition out of SAS, good thing cloud computing come around and someone realised the clusterfuck of having to manage SAS licence in the cloud.
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Debugging is something I could not do as easily in Julia vs debugonce and trace in R. Compiling takes time.
But so far we have seen great development. Flux is a truly beautiful ml library. Being a compiled language remove a lot of headache when building production images. The syntax, the full utf support in variable name. Package management is great. Having that abstraction layer between CPU, GPU so you don't have to rewrite code. Dispatch based on signature, type management. I don't see it going away soon. It took me 13 years to make them transition out of SAS, good thing cloud computing come around and someone realised the clusterfuck of having to manage SAS licence in the cloud.