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Julia vs Objective-C: What are the differences?
Julia: 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; Objective-C: The primary programming language you use when writing software for OS X and iOS. Objective-C is a superset of the C programming language and provides object-oriented capabilities and a dynamic runtime. Objective-C inherits the syntax, primitive types, and flow control statements of C and adds syntax for defining classes and methods. It also adds language-level support for object graph management and object literals while providing dynamic typing and binding, deferring many responsibilities until runtime.
Julia and Objective-C can be categorized as "Languages" tools.
"Lisp-like Macros" is the top reason why over 7 developers like Julia, while over 211 developers mention "Ios" as the leading cause for choosing Objective-C.
Julia is an open source tool with 22.7K GitHub stars and 3.43K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Julia's open source repository on GitHub.
Uber Technologies, Instagram, and Pinterest are some of the popular companies that use Objective-C, whereas Julia is used by inFeedo, Platform Project, and N26. Objective-C has a broader approval, being mentioned in 851 company stacks & 363 developers stacks; compared to Julia, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
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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Pros of Julia
- Fast Performance and Easy Experimentation24
- Designed for parallelism and distributed computation21
- Free and Open Source18
- Dynamic Type System17
- Multiple Dispatch16
- Calling C functions directly16
- Lisp-like Macros16
- Powerful Shell-like Capabilities10
- Jupyter notebook integration9
- REPL8
- String handling4
- Emojis as variable names4
- Interoperability3
Pros of Objective-C
- Ios212
- Xcode115
- Backed by apple62
- Osx47
- Interface builder40
- Good old fashioned ooe with a modern twist10
- Goober, please2
- Object-oriented1
- Handles well null values (no NullPointerExceptions)1
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Cons of Julia
- Immature library management system5
- Slow program start4
- JIT compiler is very slow3
- Poor backwards compatibility3
- Bad tooling2
- No static compilation2
Cons of Objective-C
- UNREADABLE1
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