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 26.1K GitHub stars and 3.8K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Julia's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Julia?
Companies
17 companies reportedly use Julia in their tech stacks, including N26, Amber by inFeedo, and Chai.
Developers
130 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Julia.
Julia Integrations
Plotly, AnyChart, MXNet, Stan, and XGBoost are some of the popular tools that integrate with Julia. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Julia.
Why developers like Julia?
Here’s a list of reasons why companies and developers use Julia
Top Reasons
Private Decisions at about Julia
Private to your company
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by members of with Julia in their tech stack.
Public Decisions about Julia
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Julia in their tech stack.
Julia
Fast development and fast execution time. Flawless communication between packages. Julia
Julia Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Julia?
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
R Language
R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible.
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.
PHP
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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!
Julia's Followers
178 developers follow Julia to keep up with related blogs and decisions.
