Julia: A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing and Data Processing
Abstract
This report summarizes the activities enabled by an XDATA effort which includes a series of papers, the explosive growth of the Julia language, and a remarkable amount of software development. At the time of writing this report, there have been a near 4,000,000 downloads of the Julia Language, several textbooks authored by faculty worldwide based on the Julia language, and any number of classrooms using the Julia language. At the early start of the XDATA effort , Python was extremely popular, (as it remains today), but even large commercial companies such as Google are starting to understand Pythons shortcomings. At the same time, libraries written in Julia remain callable from other popular languages such as Python. A remarkable amount of documentation that is directly or indirectly a tributable to this work can be found on such pages as: 1. The Julia Lab web page at MIT: https://julia.mit.edu/; 2. The Julia Language webpage: https://julialang.org/; and 3. the authors MIT web page: http://math.mit.edu/~edelman/
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 19, 2019
- Accession Number
- AD1069148
Entities
People
- Alan Edelman
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology