← Back to context Comment by Zambyte 2 months ago > Sadly Julia is practically just unusable beyond quite niche purposes.Why? Just the ecosystem? 4 comments Zambyte Reply jampekka 2 months ago Mainly the lack of practical support for non-REPL/Notebook usage and interoperability. joshjob42 2 months ago Interop with what? It has a very good FFI for C, PyCall, RCall, etc. work quite well.It is pretty REPL focused, but what is the thing you want that you don't have? Like better debugger support in VSCode or something? Zambyte 2 months ago Just happened to find this article, seems to do a good job of explaining why.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44013455
jampekka 2 months ago Mainly the lack of practical support for non-REPL/Notebook usage and interoperability. joshjob42 2 months ago Interop with what? It has a very good FFI for C, PyCall, RCall, etc. work quite well.It is pretty REPL focused, but what is the thing you want that you don't have? Like better debugger support in VSCode or something?
joshjob42 2 months ago Interop with what? It has a very good FFI for C, PyCall, RCall, etc. work quite well.It is pretty REPL focused, but what is the thing you want that you don't have? Like better debugger support in VSCode or something?
Zambyte 2 months ago Just happened to find this article, seems to do a good job of explaining why.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44013455
Mainly the lack of practical support for non-REPL/Notebook usage and interoperability.
Interop with what? It has a very good FFI for C, PyCall, RCall, etc. work quite well.
It is pretty REPL focused, but what is the thing you want that you don't have? Like better debugger support in VSCode or something?
Just happened to find this article, seems to do a good job of explaining why.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44013455