That's pretty common for new language implementations - Node.js was around for a couple of years before the Windows port was ready.

To be honest, if you're targeting early adopters of a programming language Linux and Mac support is probably a lot more important than Windows. Smart Windows users can always run Linux in a VM.

It is true that a number of people do their scientific computing on Windows+Matlab or Windows+R, but that most parallel stuff is typically on linux clusters. It would be nice if julia worked on both.

It is not by design that we do not have Windows support. It's just that none of us uses windows. We do believe that code is largely portable, and with a little effort, it can be built on cygwin or mingw. Nothing like a native port though. Maybe someone who is familiar with windows will come along and contribute. This is a common question our friends and colleagues ask us.

and most users of this sort of languages aren't going to be running it on windows but on Unix systems.

From my experience, a fair amount of scientific computing is done on Windows through Matlab.

I doubt it was intended as an insult. Julia (and other scientific languages) are often used in clustered environments, and Linux is much, much more common than Windows in HPC.

Look at the goal applications: scientific computing, automatic multithreading/parallelism, distributed tasks across multiple machines.

That doesn't sound trivial to port to Windows, and I'm sure their own application was their first priority.

Maybe Factor http://factorcode.org/ is what you want ?

Also, the rather new Red language (Rebol-like) http://www.red-lang.org/ seems interesting.

I'm just wondering why Creole wiki syntax failed on this particular point: for me, the syntax is much more consistent and easier to parse.

Markdown took email/mailing list/usenet conventions and turned them into syntax.

Best text editor for me on Windows since Intype and eTexteditor died.

Also, the developper is really a nice guy and very productive (many updates this week for example). Folding came when it was not expected: congrats.

I maybe wrong but it seems that caterwaul provides a macro system for JS (but I never tested it): http://caterwauljs.org

Same here: it's working with Chrome 11.0.672.2 dev , and the page allows nested frames like this: http://screencast.com/t/Tg32EOZXXA

Interesting read; what's the status of his Subtext project ?

It's called Coherence now, but I haven't seen too much lately from it. http://alarmingdevelopment.org/ is his blog.

Thanks ebiester!

This one is not online, but really worth a look (beware, it's a work in progress) : http://csweb.ucc.ie/~dongen/LaTeX-and-Friends.pdf

Cool; always free ?

Just noticed something funny: go on http://www.franz.com/ and click the Korean/French flags...weird effect!

If I remember correctly, Stallman also launched a war against Tcl some time ago. But I never really understood why he did it.

Any hint ?

From the threads I'm looking up, it seems that he just disliked the language? :S

thanks tjr!