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pannous edited this page Oct 21, 2020 · 20 revisions

Julia is by far the most beautiful, powerful and promising new language on the horizon.

It does many things right like swift, but based on more mathematical and thus sounder fundamentals.

However it is struggling with some functional concepts such as currying: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/24990#issuecomment-605531476

As noted by the zig community this is mostly the result of mixing imperative with functional principles. This need not be seen as problematic yet warrants further investigation.

Once they have decided upon which of the four proposals is most suitable it's time to introduce the it keyword as synonym or implemented as an alternative variant so that one gets the best of both worlds.

Things that could be better in Julia

and / or keywords for the ugly && ||

Types are not Covariant!
Point{Real} <: Point{Number} NOT!!
This leads to many GO like re-implementations!

Pair{String,String} isa Pair == false WTF

dot syntax https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/37993

Use objects to find functions, FFS

using Dates
t=DateTime(2013,7,1,12)
Dates.year(t)

should be t.year

include("lexer.jl") => include lexer.jl or just include lexer

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