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Anyone Moving from Julia to Mojo

by mrsofty on 9/1/23, 10:46 PM with 14 comments

we've tried using julia but FINALLY the compile time latency, HUGE memory consumption, language instability and pkg version hell got to us. We're lucky that we modularized everything so we can easily move over in stages. I'd be interested in anyone else who are making the move and what field they are in. For the record julia is a fine language but it is NOT for us.

  • by ftxbro on 9/1/23, 10:54 PM

    Mojo isn't ready unless you are doing something like writing for-loops in Python and you want them to be fast. It has probably even more language instability than Julia and it doesn't have a package manager so I don't know if that's better or worse than pkg version hell. There hasn't been enough time for multiple package versions though, so there's that.

  • by DNF2 on 9/4/23, 3:02 PM

    I'm curious about the "language instability". What kind of stability is that? Are talking about package instability, or the core language?

  • by mrsofty on 9/2/23, 11:51 AM

    Hi there I am mrsofty, the OP. I just want to point out that the question is

    " I'd be interested in anyone else who are making the move and what field they are in?"

    I phrased it like that to attempt to keep it to simple. We have made the decision based on 6 months of internal discussion, compiler and hardware expert input and watching the roll out of Mojo chatter. I just wanted to clear that up.

  • by xgdgsc on 9/2/23, 2:16 AM

    Have you tried 1.10 for the memory part: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-improvement-of-memory-... ? For stability you might better switch to cpp.

  • by npalli on 9/2/23, 4:22 AM

    Dude, six months back you were fed up with Julia and wanted to move to Carbon . How did that work out? Now you want to move to Mojo?? Who’s funding any of these attempts or are you just screwing around with some small personal scripts.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35009074