# Understanding Julia’s role in businesses

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**Created:** [September 7, 2023, 12:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/understanding-julia-s-role-in-businesses/103609 "2023-09-07T12:49:50Z")\
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> [@Tarny\_GG\_Channie](#):
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> this leaves us at the intersection of efficiency in development and efficiency in compute power.

A significant part of my time over the last 3 years has been devoted to a project entirely developed in Julia for precisely this reason:

- the problem was so complicated that we anticipated having to test several ways to solve it =\> efficiency in development
- most of the solution methods require lots of heavy computations =\> efficiency in compute power

We originally had to convince everyone involved that using Julia for this was a good idea. But now, 3 years later, we have a mini eco-system of ~10 packages (most of which are closed-source, but for instance [Eikonal.jl](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-announcing-eikonal-jl/102960) came out of it too). And it is clear to everybody that this was the best choice\[1\].

  

> [@Tarny\_GG\_Channie](#):
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> However, this very intersection is also full of competition, for example, python’s numba, a bunch of small languages, python with native code library, etc.

I’m not so sure about this. For example, in the project mentioned above, some of the work involved running computations on GPU clusters. I’m very far from being a Numba expert, but I doubt it would have been as easy to do with Python/Numba than with Julia.

  

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1. In particular, a better choice than Python + C++, which would otherwise have been the default choice, but retrospectively a terrible one

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