Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize For Numerical Software (mit.edu)

An anonymous reader writes: Three co-creators of the MIT-incubated Julia programming language are the recipients of the 2019 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software. With origins in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Department of Mathematics, Julia is a programming language created in 2009 by Jeff Bezanson PhD '15, former MIT Julia Lab researchers Stefan Karpinski, and Viral B. Shah, and professor of mathematics Alan Edelman. The prize will be awarded to Bezanson, Karpinski, and Shah "for the creation of Julia, an innovative environment for the creation of high-performance tools that enable the analysis and solution of computational science problems."

Released publicly in 2012, Julia has over 3 million downloads and is used in over 1,500 universities for scientific and numerical computing. "I am proud of the intellectual contributions of the Julia Lab, which applies the latest in computer science to science and engineering problems, while engaging interdisciplinary collaborations all over campus and beyond," said Edelman. "Julia is increasingly the language of instruction for scientific computing at MIT."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[niftymitch]

"Why is everyone so interested in Julia?
"At some high level, Julia seems to solve what Steven Johnson (MIT) described at EuroSciPy on Friday as 'the two-language problem'. It's also known as Outerhout's dichotomy. Basically, there are system languages (hard to use, fast), and scripting languages (easy to use, slow). Attempts to get the best of boths worlds have tended to result in a bit of a mess. Until Julia.
(https://agilescientific.com/blog/2014/9/4/julia-in-a-nutshell.html)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"the language-agnostic design of LLVM has since spawned a wide variety of front ends: languages with compilers that use LLVM include ActionScript, Ada, C#,[4][5][6] Common Lisp, Crystal, CUDA, D, Delphi, Fortran, Graphical G Programming Language,[7] Halide, Haskell, Java bytecode, Julia, Kotlin, Lua, Objective-C, OpenGL Shading Language, Pony,[8] Python, R, Ruby,[9] Rust, Scala,[10] Swift, and Xojo."

While Julia is not running on JVM it should be noted that a recent update to the JVM helps it be an interesting compiler target.
See: Java 7 JVM implements JSR 292: Supporting Dynamically Typed Languages[7] on the Java Platform, a new feature which supports dynamically typed languages in the JVM. This feature is developed within the Da Vinci Machine project whose mission is to extend the JVM so that it supports languages other than Java. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine)

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