I recently gave a Why Julia? talk to a roomful of computational fluid dynamicists and astrophysicists. ( John Gibson, UNH & KITP, Julia - a high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing , Kavli Institute, UCSB 2017-02-02). I got two main skeptical responses. One Python expert …

I guess I can give some historical motivation here. When we started working on Julia in 2009, the Python ecosystem was nowhere near where it is today: PyPy was pretty new: 1.0 was released in 2007 – it was the first version to be able to run any substantial Python apps and there were no plans at t…

Julia motivation: why weren't Numpy, Scipy, Numba, good enough?

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