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I would also say, for those not familiar with Julia, that the main advantage of Julia vs Python or R is that you can write performant code in Julia that will be fast enough for most scenarios.

For example, there are efforts to write a pure BLAS in Julia that is still performant [1]. If you are into numerical computing, you will quickly understand this is crazy cool.

A consequence of that is composability. Most libraries are pure Julia, small, and play nicely with each other.

[1] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/11634

parent nextos 6 years ago

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