<story><title>I Love Julia</title><url>http://technology.stitchfix.com/blog/2014/12/04/i-heart-julia/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jjoonathan</author><text>I love Julia too, but it currently has a bug which kills my desired workflow: the plotting library (Gadfly) takes 30 seconds to import.&lt;p&gt;Yes, there are a number of workarounds. You can use python or R for plotting, you can keep a single interactive session going and reload your source file in it, you can precompile Gadfly into Julia&amp;#x27;s global precompiled blob, etc, but the solutions take time and effort that significantly offset Julia&amp;#x27;s value proposition (for me, at least). If you haven&amp;#x27;t looked at Julia yet you might want to hold off for a while until they get it sorted out. It looks like it might happen in the next version, 0.4, which hopefully will support pre-compiled libraries.&lt;p&gt;I feel like a bit of a dick for complaining about hiccups in a beta version, but I &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; like Julia and I &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; don&amp;#x27;t want to see it go the Clojure route and simply accept several-second delays in oft-repeated tasks. Drake, I&amp;#x27;m looking at you -- Make can build my entire C++ codebase in less time than it takes your &amp;quot;make-replacement&amp;quot; to launch! I love your features, but the stuck-in-molassas feeling I get when using your program was enough to scare me away.</text></comment>
<story><title>I Love Julia</title><url>http://technology.stitchfix.com/blog/2014/12/04/i-heart-julia/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>overgard</author><text>You know, one of the things that has annoyed me about python isn&amp;#x27;t that it&amp;#x27;s slow, its just it seemed like the BDFL was unconcerned about addressing performance. It is what it is, you can&amp;#x27;t fault them for having their priorities, but it bothered me. PyPy to an extent has done an excellent job of addressing it, but I&amp;#x27;m really happy that there&amp;#x27;s a language like this that seems like it cares about making things fast without making it incredibly verbose -- I am impressed.</text></comment>