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What's Bad About Julia | Jeff Bezanson | JuliaCon 2019
Julia co-creator Jeff Bezanson candidly lists fundamental problems with the language at JuliaCon 2019, including modularity, types and compiler latency, and how they might be solved.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN cites it as the language creator's honest account of Julia's weaknesses, useful for anyone evaluating the language.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- The Julia Programming Language
- Topic
- julia language limitations
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2026
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A good opportunity to point out this Juliacon 2019 video: What's Bad About Julia ( [VIDEO] ) TL;DR: Julia is not that bad.
chappi42 on Hacker News · 2019-08
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seertaak on Hacker News · 2026-02
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