The accelerating adoption of Julia

Posted Oct 21, 2020 8:05 UTC (Wed) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: The accelerating adoption of Julia by gerdesj
Parent article: The accelerating adoption of Julia

Indeed. And the infrastructure is growing rapidly -- right now almost everything I want seems to be there in terms of libraries, often much better than python. For the IDE, I have been using jupyter; but will check out pluto.

My workflow is, roughly:

prototype quickly in jupyter
save the "done" functions to a library file; delete from the jupyter notebook and import the library
at the end of the day, if I want a commandline program, just write it as a wrapper around the library file.

It looks like pluto will make this sort of iterative development even easier. On my next-to-try list.

And the performance, for such an easy-to-write language, is incredible. And when it isn't, the Julia people take notice. See this for a very interesting example: Julia folks got their biosequences package to run as fast as Seq, a highly optimised special purpose language for bioinformatics (helped by the transparency and accessibility of the Seq folks, to their great credit).