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New comment by postflopclarity in "Julia 1.13 highlights"

postflopclarity — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:59:46 +0000

I think there's a very bright future in this regard :)

1.13 is, to-date, the release with the fastest startup times. and AOT compilation continues to be a serious priority for upcoming releases

Julia 1.13 Highlights

postflopclarity — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 23:11:44 +0000

Article URL: https://julialang.org/blog/2026/09/julia-1.13-highlights/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49651384

Points: 75

# Comments: 2

New comment by postflopclarity in "How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language"

postflopclarity — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:01:03 +0000

```

>>> x = [2*53, 2*53 + 2]

>>> statistics.covariance(x, x) 4.0

>>> statistics.variance(x) 2

```

python has plenty of bugs like these too. is this example also "LLM slop" ? I think it's frankly delusional to somehow believe that these issues are unique to Julia.

New comment by postflopclarity in "How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language"

postflopclarity — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:34:11 +0000

I have submitted plenty of core contributions, none of which were directed or paid for by VC. the language contributions come from those sufficiently motivated to contribute. if you want to change the direction, you need to do some work.

New comment by postflopclarity in "How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language"

postflopclarity — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:19:36 +0000

I am not hostile to criticism.

> If anyone really believes the Python bugs are real, they should report it to Python

I have reported several bugs, both to Python and to Julia.

I'm not going to engage further in this thread, but if you want to continue discussion I'd be happy to chat somewhere else that's a little less clunky

New comment by postflopclarity in "How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language"

postflopclarity — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:57:03 +0000

> But most of the supposed "bugs" seem like totally fine/reasonable behaviors to me

exactly. and the same is true for many of the bugs that have been presented as indictments of Julia. but when the same is said of those, the community is called "defensive." so it's a lose-lose.

New comment by postflopclarity in "How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language"

postflopclarity — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:55:39 +0000

no.

New comment by postflopclarity in "How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language"

postflopclarity — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:31:54 +0000

in particular, https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-stability-vs-rust-fo... is a very visceral example of how bugs like these arise everywhere (including python) and are in no way unique or even exaggerated in Julia.

New comment by postflopclarity in "How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language"

postflopclarity — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:05:18 +0000

why do you keep making new accounts?

New comment by postflopclarity in "How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language"

postflopclarity — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:31:24 +0000

> It is better than your code, which is probably a low bar.

why so rude and adversarial, especially when so misinformed? AI code is better than 95% of engineers at this point.

New comment by postflopclarity in "How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language"

postflopclarity — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:30:13 +0000

nobody "demanded" anything. it's just the most productive way to write code these days. the same is true at the vast majority of software companies (that can afford the $$ on tokens) as well.

New comment by postflopclarity in "How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language"

postflopclarity — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:25:58 +0000

I don't have any financial interest in Julia so I'm a bit confused about the reference to "share holders." I'm just a user.

I'm sure there are lots of smart people who found that the language didn't suit their needs. there are also lots of smart people who love using Julia. both things can be true at the same time.

New comment by postflopclarity in "How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language"

postflopclarity — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:38:19 +0000

I think that article has been discussed to death and there's not much value in resurrecting it on every single post that mentions Julia. ultimately if you think the language might be a fit for your use case, I'd recommend trying it out and see how you like it first-hand.

New comment by postflopclarity in "Mojo 1.0"

postflopclarity — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:44:20 +0000

it's legitimately among the best languages for writing GPU kernels

New comment by postflopclarity in "[dead]"

postflopclarity — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:23:04 +0000

stopped listening after "they're not supplying a compelling product"

the speaker here clearly is just rage-baiting. any inability to achieve productivity gains with the products OAI and A\ produce is purely a user skill issue

New comment by postflopclarity in "Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude"

postflopclarity — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:55:07 +0000

claude's grammar has gotten significantly worse with latest versions. it no longer writes perfectly at all

New comment by postflopclarity in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

postflopclarity — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:41:50 +0000

there's always something. technology has come a long way. AI is disruptive, but so were railways, electricity, the transistor, etc...

New comment by postflopclarity in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

postflopclarity — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:56:31 +0000

real

New comment by postflopclarity in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

postflopclarity — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:48:18 +0000

> The SP500 gives 10-12%

the historical average is closer to 7%. sustained 12% would be excellent growth for any mature firm

New comment by postflopclarity in "UnifiedIR for Julia"

postflopclarity — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:39:38 +0000

there are already reasons given in another comment thread. the main reason is that this IR is itself written in Julia, and using multiple languages is cumbersome and annoying.