Julia: Broken link for julia-1.4.0.pdf?
On the Julia 1.4 Documentation page, the link to julia-1.4.0.pdf (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliaLang/docs.julialang.org/assets/julia-1.4.0.pdf) seems to be broken.
dslate1
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We had the same issue with 1.3.0.
33968 is the tracking issue.
ViralBShah
on 22 Mar 2020
Just a thought: perhaps when you post a link like that, someone should actually verify that it works?
dslate1
on 22 Mar 2020
Just a thought: perhaps when you post a link like that, someone should actually verify that it works?
Yea, perhaps. We only have so many volunteers. Would be great if you wanted to get involved!
Anyway, I spent the day (literally) fixing the root cause so the pdf is up now.
fredrikekre
on 22 Mar 2020
I would second @fredrikekre here. We always need more help. So, even testing these things out in the RC process and opening small PRs to make things polished would be a great help.
@fredrikekre thanks for chasing this one!
ViralBShah
on 22 Mar 2020
Thanks guys for fixing the link to julia-1.4.0.pdf. Actually, when I first discovered Julia back in 2012 I became fairly active in reporting and discussing issues with your dev group, mostly involving documentation although some about Julia's behavior itself. Then I abandoned Julia for several years, primarily because I got heavily into using R for machine learning purposes, such as Kaggle contests, and I didn't think Julia was ready to replace R in that regard. Then recently, in my eternal search for better programming languages, I decided to see how Julia had progressed. So I dusted off some old Julia code I had written and got it working (after a bunch of mods to conform to 8 years of changes to the language). I also tried out the R package JuliaCall to see if I could combine the versatility of R with the hopefully better execution speed of Julia for low level code. Although JuliaCall seems to work fairly well (except for some problem involving crashes during parallel processing), I found it a bit too confusing to keep switching my 75 year old brain between the two languages.
I like a lot of the ideas in Julia, such as the type system, multiple dispatch, transparent conversions and promotions, just-in-time compilation, etc., so I hope it continues to progress. You may yet hear from me again if I encounter issues worth reporting.
dslate1
on 23 Mar 2020
Thank you for that note, and we would certainly like to hear issues you run into. Avoiding switching between two languages is precisely why we started Julia, so I can certainly sympathize!
ViralBShah
on 23 Mar 2020
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Thanks guys for fixing the link to julia-1.4.0.pdf. Actually, when I first discovered Julia back in 2012 I became fairly active in reporting and discussing issues with your dev group, mostly involving documentation although some about Julia's behavior itself. Then I abandoned Julia for several years, primarily because I got heavily into using R for machine learning purposes, such as Kaggle contests, and I didn't think Julia was ready to replace R in that regard. Then recently, in my eternal search for better programming languages, I decided to see how Julia had progressed. So I dusted off some old Julia code I had written and got it working (after a bunch of mods to conform to 8 years of changes to the language). I also tried out the R package JuliaCall to see if I could combine the versatility of R with the hopefully better execution speed of Julia for low level code. Although JuliaCall seems to work fairly well (except for some problem involving crashes during parallel processing), I found it a bit too confusing to keep switching my 75 year old brain between the two languages.
I like a lot of the ideas in Julia, such as the type system, multiple dispatch, transparent conversions and promotions, just-in-time compilation, etc., so I hope it continues to progress. You may yet hear from me again if I encounter issues worth reporting.