What features do I gain in Julia?

[djsegal]

On a similar vein to:

What features will I miss in Julia?

I’ve being using R (and Rstudio) for one year and now want to move to Julia (maybe with Jupyter or Beaker) because I need better speed. R was causing me a lot of problems when dealing with large dataset. What R features will I miss in Julia? In R I use quite a lot data.table, ggplot, lattice, lme4, stan, knitr to create Rmd files, regular expressions and Rcpp.

Coming from Python, R, Matlab, & Fortran, what features do I gain in Julia?

[dpsanders]

The fact that you can do everything in only one language, instead of mixing Python, R, Matlab & Fortran, and have it be interactive, elegant, and fast.

[kristoffer.carlsson]

Aren’t there enough why Julia material out there? Is this question because you actually wonder or just to create a discussion?

[rsmaior]

A very “minor” feature, but since never seen someone highlighting this: use unicode characters as variables with LaTeX-like synthax.

i.e. you open the terminal (does not need to be in juno!) write \beta and use tab to autocomplete to β. And what about \pi + Tab = π ??? I would love to have this in my graduation…

See the huge list here:
https://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/unicode-input.html#Unicode-Input-1