@compleat wrote:
Hi. As I have taken on the learning of Julia as a project, I have increasingly wondered whether many of the ‘computer science niceties’ like immutability, strictness of variable types, broadcasting, etc, which undoubtedly allow great generality and elegance in programming (as well as efficiency) might be merely annoyance to a large proportion of users (like me) who are moving over from matlab/numpy/R, as well as for raw beginners. Far from complaining about Julia, which I regard as a wonderful project and resource, I wondered if there might be room for a Lite (‘human’?) version (maybe called ‘Juliette’?) which would use Julia as an engine, but which would go a bit further in user-friendliness, even tried to go a bit further still (admittedly at the expense of efficiency, elegance etc.) in attempting to figure out what the user wanted, or (in the case of serious ambiguity or erroneous commands) suggesting guesses to help with syntax?
Or is this just me being greedy and ungrateful?
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