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Julia

A high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing
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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 Package Managers category of a tech stack.
Julia is an open source tool with 44.3K GitHub stars and 5.4K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Julia's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Julia?

Companies
24 companies reportedly use Julia in their tech stacks, including N26, Flitto, and Development.

Developers
482 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Julia.

Julia Integrations

GitHub, Python, Slack, Stack Overflow, and GitLab are some of the popular tools that integrate with Julia. Here's a list of all 25 tools that integrate with Julia.
Pros of Julia
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Fast Performance and Easy Experimentation
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Designed for parallelism and distributed computation
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Free and Open Source
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Dynamic Type System
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Multiple Dispatch
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Calling C functions directly
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Lisp-like Macros
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Powerful Shell-like Capabilities
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Jupyter notebook integration
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REPL
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String handling
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Emojis as variable names
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Interoperability

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.
MATLAB
Using MATLAB, you can analyze data, develop algorithms, and create models and applications. The language, tools, and built-in math functions enable you to explore multiple approaches and reach a solution faster than with spreadsheets or traditional programming languages, such as C/C++ or Java.
Rust
Rust is a systems programming language that combines strong compile-time correctness guarantees with fast performance. It improves upon the ideas of other systems languages like C++ by providing guaranteed memory safety (no crashes, no data races) and complete control over the lifecycle of memory.
Golang
Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.
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Julia's Followers
665 developers follow Julia to keep up with related blogs and decisions.