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gsf_emergency_2 ◴[11 Apr 25 01:11 UTC] No.43649466[source]▶
Any Julians comment?

Having seen Julia proposed as the nemesis of R (not python, that too political, non-lispy)

>the creator of the R programming language, Ross Ihaka, who provided benchmarks demonstrating that Lisp’s optional type declaration and machine-code compiler allow for code that is 380 times faster than R and 150 times faster than Python

(Would especially love an overview of the controversies in graphics/rendering)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42785785

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1. fithisux ◴[14 Apr 25 16:58 UTC] No.43683361[source]▶
Julia is what I mostly use. I used R in the past, but I was all the time puzzled from the documentation. It did not work for me. Sometimes I fire the REPL for some interpolation, but I limit myself to what I understand.

BTW I am a senior Java / Python developer