The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch | Stefan Karpinski | JuliaCon 2019

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters recommend it as the definitive explanation, from a language designer, of why multiple dispatch makes Julia's composability work.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

The Julia Programming Language

Topic

multiple dispatch in julia

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

9

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• Did you mean "unreasonable effectiveness"? :P I just watched that talk the other day, and boy is it insightful. Julia has cracked a fairly magical combination of features. I fully expect it to replace Python over the next 10 years. Direct link to "Unreasonable Effectiveness": …

• It's hard to say limited benefit when the entire Julia ecosystem evolved to so heavily rely on it, to allow for each package to work on it's own level of abstraction: For example, the Julia's standard library implements all of the basic math operators on …

• You might also enjoy Stefan Karpinski’s talk at JuliaCon 2019 about how multiple dispatch helps make the language more expressive (than OOP, for Eg). The unreasonable effectiveness of multiple dispatch [VIDEO] It seems like such an elegant idea, I’m somewhat surprised no one seems to …