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## [Lean and Julia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lean-and-julia/131424)

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**Author:** [@raman\_kumar](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/raman_kumar)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [August 26, 2025, 9:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lean-and-julia/131424 "2025-08-26T09:18:29Z")

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There are a lot of gossips/news about Lean language for use in mathematics. I see no discussion in Julia community about Lean. Can Julia be used for the works that Lean do? Are there some areas/points where both J…

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## [What do we have to attract C++ or other languages' power users to try Julia?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-do-we-have-to-attract-c-or-other-languages-power-users-to-try-julia/131491)

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**Author:** [@Tarny\_GG\_Channie](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tarny_GG_Channie)\
**Replies:** 30\
**Last updated:** [August 12, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-do-we-have-to-attract-c-or-other-languages-power-users-to-try-julia/131491 "2025-08-12T11:58:52Z")

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I know threads about increasing Julia’s adoption among the general programmer population have been done to death. I’m not making another one of those threads. Instead, this thread would focus on the top 1% of programmers…

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## [Why the free variables in function body don't get bound at function definition time?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-the-free-variables-in-function-body-dont-get-bound-at-function-definition-time/128860)

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**Author:** [@Leon\_Niceday](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Leon_Niceday)\
**Replies:** 52\
**Last updated:** [May 14, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-the-free-variables-in-function-body-dont-get-bound-at-function-definition-time/128860 "2025-05-14T20:54:08Z")

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Hi, What is the advantage to having such a difference between how variables use another variables vs how functions use them? # Assigning to variable julia\> a=1; julia\> b=a 1 julia\> a="asdf"; julia\> b 1 # OK, as expe…

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## [Introductory book recommendations](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/introductory-book-recommendations/45066)

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**Author:** [@anon37204545](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon37204545)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [October 17, 2022, 8:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/introductory-book-recommendations/45066 "2022-10-17T08:11:04Z")

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I’m looking for good textbooks about quantum computing, quantum informatics and quantum biology. Any PDF availabe online for free is acceptable. Do you have any recommendations? Preferrably, they should be at introducto…

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## [Why are scalars iterable when broadcasting would still work fine if they weren't?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-are-scalars-iterable-when-broadcasting-would-still-work-fine-if-they-werent/84785)

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**Author:** [@Jollywatt](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Jollywatt)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 26, 2022, 3:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-are-scalars-iterable-when-broadcasting-would-still-work-fine-if-they-werent/84785 "2022-07-26T03:24:11Z")

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This is a soft-question about an aspect of Julia’s design and history. It’s a well-discussed point that scalars are iterable, in the sense that: julia\> 42\[1\], 42\[\], size(42), length(42) (42, 42, (), 1) julia\> collect(…

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## [Experience sharing: are julia applications limited to supercomputers?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/experience-sharing-are-julia-applications-limited-to-supercomputers/83347)

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**Author:** [@green](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/green)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 26, 2022, 4:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/experience-sharing-are-julia-applications-limited-to-supercomputers/83347 "2022-06-26T04:53:44Z")

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Hi, Most stories I heard so far from people with julia are using supercomputers. Has anyone experienced using julia for serious computer science research / projects with only a standard laptop or desktop computer? I wo…

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## [Interesting quote about JAX by Viral Shah in an article in Business Insider](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interesting-quote-about-jax-by-viral-shah-in-an-article-in-business-insider/82978)

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**Author:** [@akvsak](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/akvsak)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 18, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interesting-quote-about-jax-by-viral-shah-in-an-article-in-business-insider/82978 "2022-06-18T17:34:28Z")

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“JAX is a feat of engineering,” said Viral Shah, creator of the Julia programming language that experts frequently compare to JAX. “I think of JAX as a separate programming language that happens to be instantiated throu…