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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 Build Automation category of a tech stack.

Julia Pros & Cons

Pros of Julia

✓Fast Performance and Easy Experimentation
✓Designed for parallelism and distributed computation
✓Free and Open Source
✓Calling C functions directly
✓Dynamic Type System
✓Lisp-like Macros
✓Multiple Dispatch
✓Jupyter notebook integration
✓Powerful Shell-like Capabilities
✓REPL

Cons of Julia

✗Immature library management system
✗Slow program start
✗JIT compiler is very slow
✗Poor backwards compatibility
✗Bad tooling
✗No static compilation

Julia Integrations

Escher, Stan, MXNet, XGBoost, Octave and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Julia. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Julia.

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Starship (Shell Prompt)

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Julia Discussions

Discover why developers choose Julia. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

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Julia Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Julia?

RubyGems

It is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.

Bower

Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.

NuGet

A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.

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Meteor

A Meteor application is a mix of JavaScript that runs inside a client web browser, JavaScript that runs on the Meteor server inside a Node.js container, and all the supporting HTML fragments, CSS rules, and static assets.

Composer

It is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them for you.

Elm

Writing HTML apps is super easy with elm-lang/html. Not only does it render extremely fast, it also quietly guides you towards well-architected code.

Julia Integrations

Escher, Stan, MXNet, XGBoost, Octave and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Julia. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Julia.