Julia vs Scala Native

Overview

Julia

Stacks666

Followers677

Votes171

GitHub Stars47.9K

Forks5.7K

Scala Native

Stacks25

Followers67

Votes3

GitHub Stars4.6K

Forks380

Julia vs Scala Native: What are the differences?

Developers describe Julia as "A high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing". 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. On the other hand, Scala Native is detailed as "Your favourite language gets closer to bare metal". Scala Native is a new ahead-of-time compiler and lightweight managed runtime designed specifically for Scala. Project is currently in pre-release stage.

Julia and Scala Native can be primarily classified as "Languages" tools.

Julia and Scala Native are both open source tools. It seems that Julia with 22.7K GitHub stars and 3.43K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Scala Native with 3.62K GitHub stars and 248 GitHub forks.

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Advice on Julia, Scala Native

Alexander

Senior researcher at MIPT

Oct 27, 2020

Decided

After writing a project in Julia we decided to stick with Kotlin. Julia is a nice language and has superb REPL support, but poor tooling and the lack of reproducibility of the program runs makes it too expensive to work with. Kotlin on the other hand now has nice Jupyter support, which mostly covers REPL requirements.

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Detailed Comparison

Julia	Scala Native
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.	Scala Native is a new ahead-of-time compiler and lightweight managed runtime designed specifically for Scala. Project is currently in pre-release stage.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 47.9K	GitHub Stars 4.6K
GitHub Forks 5.7K	GitHub Forks 380
Stacks 666	Stacks 25
Followers 677	Followers 67
Votes 171	Votes 3
Pros & Cons
Pros 25 Fast Performance and Easy Experimentation 22 Designed for parallelism and distributed computation 19 Free and Open Source 17 Calling C functions directly 17 Dynamic Type System Cons 5 Immature library management system 4 Slow program start 3 JIT compiler is very slow 3 Poor backwards compatibility 2 No static compilation	Pros 1 Scala is just much easier to program in than Rust 1 Scala Native is fast and lightweight 1 Interop with C libraries
Integrations
GitHub Azure Web App for Containers GitLab Slack C++ Rust C lang Stack Overflow vscode.dev Python	Scala

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