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How does nimrod compare to Julia?

• bjz_ 13y ago
  Here is the lay of the land as I see it – I could be wrong though, so take it with a grain of salt: Julia is dynamically typed and leverages LLVM's JIT support to generate efficient code at runtime. Julia has a clear goal of taking on the scientific and statistics domains where R, Matlab and Sci/NumPy are currently dominant. It is an elegantly designed language that provides blazingly fast bindings to established Fortran and C numerical libraries. Nimrod is statically typed and compiles to C, C++ or Objective C. It seems to be aiming to be 'general purpose', but there has been efforts to position it as a systems level language. The biggest draw seems to be its expressive metaprogramming capabilities[0] and clean, python-esq syntax. [0]: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/nimrod http://www.infoq.com/presentations/nimrod
  • tejinderss 13y ago
    I don't think that Julia is targeted only for scientific computing. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17433435/what-makes-julia-unsuitable-for-general-purpose-programming/17434967#17434967 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17433435/what-makes-julia...