4 ms·
If I can ask a stupid question. Why Julia? It seems to me that if you are not going to be using Python, then why not use a language like Java?
by SeanDav 12y ago
If I can ask a stupid question. Why Julia? It seems to me that if you are not going to be using Python, then why not use a language like Java?
- jey 12y agoHuh, what upside does Java have? Julia is specifically designed to be a great high-performance high-level language for scientific computing. See http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/ http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/
- pepon 12y agopublic class Answer { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("That's why"); } }
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoA lot of people doing scientific programming are not, in many senses of the word, 'programmers', and java doesn't really fit in the kinds of workflow they want. (That's not a condemnation, it's just the way it is, see also the ghosts of fortran 77)