/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9991664
>>9992246
>Yeah that's why actual computation is handled by compiled C code you dumb fuck, python just lets you tell it what you want it to do.

you guys are clearly script kiddos.

The entire reason why Julia is so exciting is because it removes the "developer" vs "user" divide which was ever persistence in the scientific computing community. "Users" were reliant on skilled programmers to actually write all of the C/numpy code that they wanted to use.

Julia enables en users to write high performance code in scripting language syntax. the "users" don't have to sit around and wait, if you need high performance code, you can do it yourself.

This is why the Julia ecosystem is expanding so rapidly. All of the packages are written in Julia, so everyone can contribute.

>>9991664
>>Julia has similar performance to C.
>Bullshit.
It gets compiled to LLVM IR. This is precisely what happens if you use the clang compiler. The only situations where Julia might be slower is if you really abuse dynamic typing, but this can easily be avoided if you properly use dynamic dispatch.

In fact, Julia can theoretically be faster than C/C++, as it has JIT compilation for optimization.