Category Archives: Julia

Collaborating on a Julia Project

By: Michele Pratusevich

Re-posted from: http://learningjulia.com/2020/02/09/collaboration-julia-project.html

For personal projects, I tend to skip around a lot and not focus on one thing, so today’s post is a break from the Trebekian.jl project from the previous post. Instead, I want to talk a little bit about how to collaborate on a Julia project with other people.

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JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming Language

By: oxinabox.github.io

Re-posted from: https://white.ucc.asn.au/2020/02/09/whycompositionaljulia.html

One of the most remarkable things about the julia programming language,
is how well the packages compose.
You can almost always reuse someone else’s types or methods in your own software without issues.
This is generally taken on a high level to be true of all programming languages because that is what a library is.
However, experienced software engineers often note that its surprisingly difficult in practice to take something from one project and use it in another without tweaking.
But in the julia ecosystem this seems to mostly work.
This post explores some theories on why;
and some loose recommendations to future language designers.
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Collaborating on a Julia Project

By: Michele Pratusevich

Re-posted from: https://learningjulia.com/2020/02/09/collaboration-julia-project.html

For personal projects, I tend to skip around a lot and not focus on one thing, so today’s post is a break from the Trebekian.jl project from the previous post. Instead, I want to talk a little bit about how to collaborate on a Julia project with other people.

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