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If ever there was a language justified in claiming to be heavily inspired by a dozen other languages, I'm sure Julia is it. When I first heard about Julia I un
by versteegen 1y ago
If ever there was a language justified in claiming to be heavily inspired by a dozen other languages, I'm sure Julia is it.
When I first heard about Julia I understood it to be a faster alternative to Python. As I started to learn it I realised that's really not what it's about, it's trying hard to compete simultaneously with Matlab and R and Fortran and C++ (and the template metaprogramming language hiding in C++) and APL and Lisp and maybe OCaml just as much as Python (but not Rust or Java or Agda), and I can't even speak to the other languages mentioned.