• tetris11@feddit.uk
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      1 day ago

      I have a good friend like you. Smart guy, talks about R but mostly about Julia.

      Decided to write his own transpiler. Dropped off the face of the earth. I wish I had more friends like that

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        15 hours ago

        Jupyter notebook isn’t a language, it’s a tool for running interactive sessions, typically with Python, but in principle with any language. I’m fairly certain people run Julia in Jupyter Notebooks.

        As for the advantages of Julia versus Python, arrays are native types, so they interface better across the entire language. It’s also shockingly fast in comparison, it compiles the code at runtime, so the longer the program runs, the faster it is.

        If there is a use-case for R that Julia or Python can’t do, I haven’t seen it. I personally don’t see the point of writing code in R when the Python and Julia are more broadly useful to learn.

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        21 hours ago

        Developer here, I seriously don’t know what to think of the modern tech in general. I reject LLMs because they’re not trustworthy so all of my searches are your typical search engine, stackoverflow, etc. The internet feels so empty, you’d rarely find anything from the last couple of years that’s not AI-gen.

        This is making believe that we will reach a point when our tech stack docs are only cooked into LLMs and I fucking hate that. I would rather go back to the 1990s over this.