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ninjaaron / administrative-scripting-with-julia

Guide for writing shell scripts in Julia
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Typo, and time files. Comment on snap #3

Closed PallHaraldsson closed 4 years ago

PallHaraldsson commented 4 years ago

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PallHaraldsson commented 4 years ago

I really feel julia snap shouldn't be mentioned except to warn against it.

I made the mistake of trying it out, and ran into trouble, in retrospect understandable. I was calling some 64-bit binary dependency, and didn't see the ELF error right away in a middle of a stack-trace, so debugging took a lot longer than I would like.

snap should upgrade Julia to 64-bit, and latest Julia 1.4 (even 1.0.4, currently used, is outdated for the LTS). It should work for scripting too, and with -O1 startup wouldn't be slow...

ninjaaron commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the update! You're definitely right about the snap! I tried using it for a little while, but quickly found it untenable. At the time I wrote this, I was using Arch everywhere, which is a great platform for Julia developers. I'm using Ubuntu on my personal laptop at the moment, so I actually have a bit of experience with the snap now, and you're right.