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Resources

• Homepage: julialang.org
• Download: github.com/JuliaLang/julia
• Discussion: julia-math@googlegroups.com

Overview

Julia is a very high level dynamic language with simple, optional typing, multiple dispatch, and good performance, achieved by using just-in-time (JIT) compilation, implemented using LLVM. The language is multi-paradigm, combining features of functional, object-oriented, and imperative programming.

Some advantages of Julia over comparable systems include:

• Free and open source
• High performance just-in-time compilation and execution
• Consistent and powerful generic function model
• User-defined types are as fast and efficient as built-ins
• Simple syntax for defining new types
• Designed for parallelism and distributed computation
• Multi-dimensional array comprehensions
• Lightweight "green" threading (coroutines)
• Powerful but unobstrusive type system via optional type annotations
• Elegant and extensible automatic conversions for numeric and other types
• Efficient support for Unicode, including but not limited to UTF-8
• Powerful shell-like capabilities for managing other processes
• Lisp-like macros and other powerful metaprogramming facilities