Hi all. So, I just landed a new postdoc at a very famous institution where no one uses julia hahaha. Every time I bring up that I work in julia and not matlab or python I get weird looks and comments like “Really? isn’t it too underdeveloped”, or “What’s Julia?”. So, I decided to make a presentat…

To me, the best feature of Julia is its composability which allows to achieve substantial functionality with very little code. Here, generic functions throughout the language, i.e., without any of the compromises/restrictions in other languages, really shines and often allows to split code into sepa…

I pitched Julia to colleagues more than a year ago and approached it more from a holistic point of view and I’ll have to echo those in this thread that say it is more useful and worth other people’s time if it is presented in a way that shows how it can solve the problems they/the team faces in a cl…

I guess I’m lucky that I’m the head of the data science department in a small financial institution. I built the team from scratch, and from day one I said we’re using Julia and that’s that. It’s been 3.5 years and we’ve never looked back. Julia & ecosystem solved all of the problems in my domain…

I also tried to pitch Julia at my university at some point and it didn’t work. People (psychologists / neuroscientists) didn’t care about multiple dispatch or types or broadcasting at all, and only asked “does this have better libraries for our use cases than Matlab or Python” for which the answer w…

I made a blog post on the topic you might find interesting: What's great about Julia?

Was this topic already cited here yet? [image] Seven Lines of Julia (examples sought) General Usage I am looking for examples: show me some real computational power in seven or fewer lines of Julia that read clearly. It is ok to be using other packages, though no more tha…

Something that has not been said in the previous posts: if it is a research institution, replicability is a must, and thanks to Pkg3 the way you add packages and the full stack of underlying dependences get automatically recorded in a small Project/Manifest.toml files and this makes so easy to repli…

[image] marianoarnaiz: Every time I bring up that I work in julia and not matlab or python I get weird looks and comments like “Really? isn’t it too underdeveloped”, or “What’s Julia?”. Honestly, I give weird looks when anyone under 40 says they use MATLAB, and I liked that language. I suffer…

I think the Julia community is wonderful. As a new commer to Julia I often ask questions that, after reading the answer, are near obvious. But I always get quick and clear answers. I came to Julia because I was forced to. I never regretted that. The language is very powerful and will require more…

My last comment was more of a “Julia vs MATLAB”, spiel and why Julia fixes everything that annoyed me about MATLAB, but I didn’t have much time to go into why I enjoyed Julia more than Python. I started out with MATLAB and when I got a job, moved on to Python because I worked for a small company tha…

Why is Julia so great?

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