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0 pointsdmix6y ago0 comments

Data science/AI people breathed a whole lot of life into Python. I'm curious where it would be if they had went elsewhere.

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R for the ecosystem, Julia for the performance & future proofing.

What "future proofing"? It's not like Julia is "the future" it's just a contended, and it's not doing that good at that either...

pjmlp6y ago

Its adoption at banks and life science research labs tells another story.

Naturally if the community finally gathers around PyPy, that might change.

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R for the ecosystem, Julia for the performance & future proofing.

What "future proofing"? It's not like Julia is "the future" it's just a contended, and it's not doing that good at that either...

pjmlp6y ago

Its adoption at banks and life science research labs tells another story.

Naturally if the community finally gathers around PyPy, that might change.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse