Should I start using Julia?
It looks cool and all, but I'm a bit afraid of libraries support.
Is there a way to run python libraries in Julia or something like that?
@rastinza In general, Julia has a lot of libraries similar to Python and is definitely catching up in the realm of data science. I will say though that Julia is far ahead in differential equations solvers:
@sojournTime
Thanks, but that is not my main concern.
I need to use some specialised libraries, I have seen there's some data science stuff and that it might be used for deep learning; but that's useless if I cannot generate the data in the first place.
I need to use cheminformatics and bioinformatics libraries.
I have seen recently that rdkit made a version for Julia, but I have no idea how complete that is.
I doubt most other libraries in the field have even considered converting.
@sojournTime
Thanks, I'll try taking a look into this API.
Is there some way to adapt python libraries to Julia?
I'm afraid I might start working with it, and then require a library which I didn't account for, which is not available.
@rastinza This looks like what you're looking for:
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/python-to-julia-transpiler/21473
@rastinza I'm not too well versed in the chemistry/bioinformatics side, but briefly looking into RDKit for Julia looks like that they simply added a C API for any programming language, so any limitations with RDKit in Julia would be with the API:
https://chembl.blogspot.com/2021/05/julia-meets-rdkit.html?m=1