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@tschenkel @astrojuanlu @programming
I'd suppose part of the problem might be that there's a somewhat hidden 3rd category of user that "feels" whatever added complexity there is in a two-language lang like julialang and has no real need for performant "product" code.
And that lack of adoption amongst this cohort and your first enforces lang separation.
I may be off base with whether there's a usability trade off, but I'd bet there's at least the perception of one.
@maegul
Considering, it may be worth highlighting that tools like Jax exist as well (https://github.com/google/jax). These have even become an expected integration in some toolkits (e.g., numpyro)
It may not be the most elegant approach, but there's a lot of power in something that "mostly just works and then we can optimize narrowly once we find a problem"
It doesn't make a solution that solves this mess bad, but I do wonder about it being a narrow niche
@tschenkel @astrojuanlu @programming
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Yea ... it seems that things like this are part of Julia's problem ...
that for many the "two language problem" is actually the "two language solution" that's working just fine and as intended, or as you say, well enough to make an ecosystem jump seem too costly.