Julia
A fast, dynamically typed programming language for technical and scientific computing.
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Package managers
- Chocolatey
choco install julia - Homebrew
brew install julia
About Julia
Julia feels like a scripting language, with an interactive REPL and dynamic typing, but compiles to efficient native code via LLVM. It is built around multiple dispatch and includes a package manager, reproducible environments, asynchronous I/O, metaprogramming, profiling and the ability to build binaries.
The current release is v1.13.0, and the project has over 1,000 contributors. It suits scientists, engineers and data analysts who want interactive work and high performance in the same language.
Strengths
- Compiles to native code via LLVM for high performance
- Interactive REPL with a scripting-language feel
- Built-in package manager with reproducible environments
- Multiple dispatch makes code easy to compose
Limitations
- Compilation can make the first run of code slow
- Smaller package ecosystem than Python or R
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the MIT license.
- License
- MIT
- Developer
- The Julia contributors
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Scientists and engineers who need fast numerical code with interactive use
- Categories
- Developer tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Julia
Compare allSoftware that can replace Julia for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Python
A general-purpose programming language used for scripting, web backends, data analysis and machine learning.
Python has a much larger package ecosystem and is the default for data and machine learning, but it runs much slower than Julia's LLVM-compiled code for CPU-heavy work.
R
A free software environment and language for statistical computing and graphics.
R focuses on statistical computing and graphics, with packages from CRAN and Bioconductor, and it has language quirks that programmers coming from Julia will need time to learn.
SageMath
A free open-source mathematics system built on NumPy, SciPy, Maxima, GAP and many other packages.
SageMath is a free mathematics system that combines many libraries behind a Python-based language, and on Windows it needs the Windows Subsystem for Linux to run.
Similar software
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Jupyter
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JupyterLab
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Positron
A free data science IDE for Python and R from the makers of RStudio.
marimo
Reactive Python notebook stored as a plain script.
Spyder
An open-source Python IDE for scientific work with a variable explorer and an IPython console.
RStudio
A free, open-source IDE for R with a data viewer, environment pane and support for Python and SQL.
