Julia thread? Version 0.6 just hit stable and I'm trying

>>61082307
Downloaded this for my Unbuntu know nothing about it. Monitoring this thread.

>>61082307
I like it, its function-centric rather than object-centric

 this:   function(object, param)
instead of
this:   object.method(param)

>>61082307
>it's certainly getting closer to something that is a bit closer to the final form
interesting. how close is it to being close?

>>61082731
Its not an experimental language, its a finished language as much as any other new language and already in professional and academic use. There are always going to be some last minute big changes when any language is being finalized.

>>61082709
>>61082731
As first languages go. stay away?

>>61082928
Its a top notch general purpose scripting language and is going to completely replace R for data science and push out Matlab in a lot of areas. Im sure its going to start to get used in backend web development and systems administration as more people find out about it.

>>61083097
Thank you. going to learn it now. Thanks.

Waiting for a proper FreeBSD port to try it out.

>>61082307

Poor tooling , but it's getting better.

CLOS-like multiple dispatch is a feature that I wish was present in more languages. For some reason, you only seem to find it in Lisp dialects.