What is Julia?
Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library.
Julia is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
Julia is an open source tool with 24.7K GitHub stars and 3.7K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Julia's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Julia?
Companies
18 companies reportedly use Julia in their tech stacks, including Amber by inFeedo, Forio, and Devsisters.
Developers
94 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Julia.
Julia Integrations
Plotly, AnyChart, Octave, MXNet, and Escher are some of the popular tools that integrate with Julia. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Julia.
Why developers like Julia?
Here’s a list of reasons why companies and developers use Julia
Top Reasons
Julia Reviews
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Julia in their tech stack.
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Julia Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Julia?
Python
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R
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PHP
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Java
Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!