The Julia Language
BeastyBlacksmith
Nov 30, 2018
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CommentsWhat 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 Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Julia?
NuGet
A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.
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.
