[image] The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language Fortran has ruled scientific computing, but Julia emerged for large-scale numerical work.

This very interesting paper is linked in the article: [image] Julia: dynamism and performance reconciled by design | Proceedings of the ACM... Julia is a programming language for the scientific community that combines features of productivity languages, such as Python or MATLAB, with ch…

It is a nice article, making an effort to explain what makes Julia different. That said, the cooking analogy for the expression problem gave me a headache. Perhaps, having used CL before Julia, I am a bit spoilt because I consider the expression problem solved. It’s like people talking about the “f…

Ars Technica: The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language

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Ars Technica: The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language

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