Re: Octave should create a forum

[Sergei Steshenko]

On 30/12/2019 23:27, Nicholas Jankowski wrote:
> And I’m curious, is there a FSF-compliant forum out there worth using?

Irrelevant - especially taking into account that GPL is the most 
oppressive and hypocritical "free" license out there. I.e. the main 
consideration should be user convenience - not FSF dogma.


For that matter, Julia is a much better language released under real 
free MIT license. The long term goal should be to forget about 
Matlab/Octave language as real nightmare. The real advantages of Julia 
is that when desired it can be strictly typed (this is how I develop my 
code), that it's a fully fledged functional language when desired and 
that "C" interface is part of the language, i.e. functions written in 
"C" can be called directly from the language.

Also, because of MIT license (opposed to GPL) CUDA packages are part of 
Julia universe: 
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/gpu-computing-julia-programming-language/ -> 
https://github.com/JuliaGPU -> https://github.com/JuliaGPU/CUDA.jl .

I have decided to develop my own new scientific calculations code in 
Julia. Sometimes a package liked a one to be found in Octave universe is 
missing, but other than that it's pleasant experience. And Matlab/Octave 
code can be pretty easily ported to Julia.

--Sergei