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I'm confused as to why Julia, a programming language is worth so much money. If the makers of Julia have already given away their source code here, https://gith
by sneilan1 5y ago
I'm confused as to why Julia, a programming language is worth so much money. If the makers of Julia have already given away their source code here,
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia
what are they selling that's worth a 24 million series A round?
Is the Julia business model similar to Redhat or Canonical where they sell consulting services?
- amkkma 5y agoHi. Good question. This is addressed in several places in the comment thread by Keno and Chris.
- sneilan1 5y agoThank you. I'll do a search for that.
- freemint 5y agoJulia Computing is a company that employs (some of) the core contributors of Julia and develops enterprise solutions. Such as: - the first Julia IDE Juni now depreciated. - On premise package server - A wrapper over AWS called JuliaRun that has a nice web interface - paid "we make a core developer stare at RR traces of your problems" - FDA approved software for drug development and pharmacokinetics as https://juliacomputing.com/products/pumas/ https://juliacomputing.com/products/pumas/ It is not the programming language that is the product.