Comment by jakubmazanec
3 days ago
I wish people used Julia more. Few years ago I reimplemented some MATLAB code for a novel algorithm [1] I wanted to use in my dissertation about psychometrics and Julia was great language to work with - and also the code ran for 20 minutes instead of 60.
[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11336-017-9581-x
How important was this saving of 40 minutes for the whole timeline of the project of writing your dissertation about psychometrics?
Very important. This was only a simulated dataset, the final analysis would be done on a much larger one (sadly, in the end didn't finish it, because of unrelated reasons). Also, the rewrite didn't take long; the final Julia code was small, few hundreds, or maybe a thousand lines.