Did you ever check after 1.0 was released? In the earlier days it was a lot of problems with packages. Totally agree. JIT compile times are much better now.
A lot of the issues are simply that people have not learned a sensible workflow with Julia. Python guys have a lot of habits that don't translate well to Julia. I know because I work daily with two hardcore python guys. I notice all the time how we approach problems in very different ways.
Python guys seem to love making lots of separate little programs they launch from the shell. Or they just relaunch whole programs all the time.
In Julia in contrast you focus on packages from the get go and you work primarily inside the Julia REPL. You run Revise.jl package which picks up all the changes you make to your Julia package.
I guess it just depends on the workflows you are used to. For me it is the opposite. Whenever I have to jump into our Python code base I absolutely hate it. It is very unnatural for me to work in the Python way. I also find Python code kind of hard to read compared to Julia code.
But I know Python coders have the opposite problem. Basically Python guys look a lot at module names when reading code. Julia developers look more at types. The difference makes some sense since you don't really write types in Python code.
I found that the new Python type annotation system helped me feel at home in Python.
A lot of the issues are simply that people have not learned a sensible workflow with Julia. Python guys have a lot of habits that don't translate well to Julia. I know because I work daily with two hardcore python guys. I notice all the time how we approach problems in very different ways.
Python guys seem to love making lots of separate little programs they launch from the shell. Or they just relaunch whole programs all the time.
In Julia in contrast you focus on packages from the get go and you work primarily inside the Julia REPL. You run Revise.jl package which picks up all the changes you make to your Julia package.
I guess it just depends on the workflows you are used to. For me it is the opposite. Whenever I have to jump into our Python code base I absolutely hate it. It is very unnatural for me to work in the Python way. I also find Python code kind of hard to read compared to Julia code.
But I know Python coders have the opposite problem. Basically Python guys look a lot at module names when reading code. Julia developers look more at types. The difference makes some sense since you don't really write types in Python code.
I found that the new Python type annotation system helped me feel at home in Python.