# Blog post on population simulation

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blog-post-on-population-simulation/87761>\
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**Created:** [September 24, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blog-post-on-population-simulation/87761 "2022-09-24T20:40:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![cdawg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cdawg/32/9811_2.png) [@cdawg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cdawg)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blog-post-on-population-simulation/87761/1 "2022-09-24T20:40:52Z")

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I describe how much fun I had building a forward-time population simulator in Julia [here](https://lamontbiophysics.com/blog/fast-forward-sim-of-populations-in-julia).

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**Author:** ![dlakelan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dlakelan/32/8491_2.png) [@dlakelan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dlakelan)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blog-post-on-population-simulation/87761/2 "2022-09-24T20:53:18Z")

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Julia is particularly great for this kind of thing. Detailed simulation of individual or agent based systems in something like R or Python or Matlab is very unappetizing and generally slow. Doing it in C++ is fine if you know exactly what you want, but experimentation in C++ horrible. In Julia all of it is straightforward and just works.