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I have been willing to try Julia for a long time now.

I have been willing to try Julia for a long time now. Yesterday I finally put time aside to port some stuff I have been doing in Python to Julia. 1st: install Julia - used a snap on Ubuntu, fine 2nd: get jupyter to work with Julia: a bit complex, but achievable 3rd: install Julia support for vscode: Julia kernel keeps crashing in vscode 4th: Port a routine from Python to Julia: some nice language features, some scary: importing a package exposes all its functions to the all namespace - this seems quite awful! (EDIT: Thank you for pointing out that I should use `import` instead of `use`, in order not to put everything in the same namespace). 5th: Try to read a Parquet file - doesn't work because it was compressed with zstd (something all 3 libraries for parquet in Python support) 6th: realize that there is no package in Julia that even allows to write parquet files Conclusion: maybe in a few years Julia will be my go-to language, but right now, it's too underdeveloped in order to be able to do real work with it.

Posted by wtdata on Aug 2, 2019, 1:16 PM

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I have been willing to try Julia for a long time now.

wtdataAug 2, 2019, 1:16 PM

I have been willing to try Julia for a long time now. Yesterday I finally put time aside to port some stuff I have been doing in Python to Julia. 1st: install Julia - used a snap on Ubuntu, fine 2nd: get jupyter to work with Julia: a bit complex, but achievable 3rd: install Julia support for vscode: Julia kernel keeps crashing in vscode 4th: Port a routine from Python to Julia: some nice language features, some scary: importing a package exposes all its functions to the all namespace - this seems quite awful! (EDIT: Thank you for pointing out that I should use `import` instead of `use`, in order not to put everything in the same namespace). 5th: Try to read a Parquet file - doesn't work because it was compressed with zstd (something all 3 libraries for parquet in Python support) 6th: realize that there is no package in Julia that even allows to write parquet files Conclusion: maybe in a few years Julia will be my go-to language, but right now, it's too underdeveloped in order to be able to do real work with it.

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