When I was managing a deep learning team last year, my boss’s boss asked me if I had looked a Julia. I had not, but promptly spent a weekend playing with it. Th

When I was managing a deep learning team last year, my boss’s boss asked me if I had looked a Julia. I had not, but promptly spent a weekend playing with it. The deep learning library Flux is very good, GPU setup is really easy, and I wrote up snippets for text processing, web scraping, simple NLP, etc. I was doing a personal evaluation to see if it could be a language that I could do everything in. The answer was ‘yes’ but I ended up sticking with a mashup of Common Lisp and Python for my personal projects. Julia is a fun language to use because it has a great repl and a pleasant enough syntax.