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Is Julia the Next Big Programming Language? MIT Thinks So, as Version 1.0 Lands (techrepublic.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

Julia, the MIT-created programming language for developers "who want it all", hit its milestone 1.0 release this month -- with MIT highlighting its rapid adoption in the six short years since its launch. From a report: Released in 2012, Julia is designed to combine the speed of C with the usability of Python, the dynamism of Ruby, the mathematical prowess of MatLab, and the statistical chops of R. "The release of Julia 1.0 signals that Julia is now ready to change the technical world by combining the high-level productivity and ease of use of Python and R with the lightning-fast speed of C++," says MIT professor Alan Edelman. The breadth of Julia's capabilities and ability to spread workloads across hundreds of thousands of processing cores have led to its use for everything from machine learning to large-scale supercomputer simulation. MIT says Julia is the only high-level dynamic programming language in the "petaflop club," having been used to simulate 188 million stars, galaxies, and other astronomical objects on Cori, the world's 10th-most powerful supercomputer. The simulation ran in just 14.6 minutes, using 650,000 Intel Knights Landing Xeon Phi cores to handle 1.5 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point operations per second).

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  1. Translation by TimMD909 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is Becky's baby the cutest baby in the entire world? Becky thinks so, as Birthday 1.0 arrives.

  2. To quote Julia (Child)... by The+Original+CDR · · Score: 3, Funny

    Quote: "These damn things are as hot as a stiff cock!"

  3. Okay. Let's do this ... by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... for developers "who want it all" ...

    I want: local/global "goto" operations; unchecked pointers and arrays; brace *and* white-space (for you Python freaks) block delineation; weird operators like "+-+", "=!=", "-+/*" and "..."; support for casting on the *left* side of the assignment (ya, I did that on 4.3 BSD w/K&R C); random requirements for some variable to be in UPPER case and/or start with specific letters (for you FORTRAN fans) ...

    Feel free to add to this; I'll be back after I get a fourth cup of coffee.

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  4. Four cups of coffee by maroberts · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..are you having a day off?

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  5. CUNT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    How about a language called CUNT. It's not anyone's name. So it's not sexist.

  6. MatLab eh.. by volodymyrbiryuk · · Score: 3, Funny

    the mathematical prowess of MatLab

    Like arrays starting at index 1?

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  7. Cat by DrYak · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but why {...} ?!? {...} the syntax looks like the bastard child of Fortran and Perl

    Because since Python started overtaking Perl, my cats are sad because they can't write fully compliant programs just by random walking across the keyboard anymore.

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  8. I would like by tgibson · · Score: 4, Funny

    the readability of Perl with the brevity of COBOL.

  9. HR Posting by sycodon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Technologically aggressive company in the expanding AI and Scientific arena is looking for experts in Julia.

    Must have at least 5 years hands on experience building applications with Julia in multi-core, machine learning applications and simulations.

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