https://photonsphere.org/series/julia/ Recent content in Julia on The Photonsphere Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mari Donkers / Wikimedia Commons Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://photonsphere.org/post/2025-11-07-julia-pluto-notebooks/ Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://photonsphere.org/post/2025-11-07-julia-pluto-notebooks/ <p>Experimenting with Julia and Pluto notebooks.</p> <h1 id="julia">Julia</h1> <p>The <a href="https://julialang.org/">Julia</a> programming language aims to create an unprecedented combination of ease-of-use, power, and efficiency in a single language. Julia is an open source project with over 1,000 contributors. In addition to the above, some advantages of Julia over comparable systems include:</p> <ul> <li>Free and open source (MIT licensed)</li> <li>User-defined types are as fast and compact as built-ins</li> <li>No need to vectorize code for performance; devectorized code is fast</li> <li>Designed for parallelism and distributed computation</li> <li>Lightweight &quot;green&quot; threading (coroutines)</li> <li>Unobtrusive yet powerful type system</li> <li>Elegant and extensible conversions and promotions for numeric and other types</li> <li>Efficient support for Unicode, including but not limited to UTF-8</li> <li>Call C functions directly (no wrappers or special APIs needed)</li> <li>Powerful shell-like capabilities for managing other processes</li> <li>Lisp-like macros and other metaprogramming facilities</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://julialang.org/install/">Installing Julia</a> — <code>juliaup</code></p> https://photonsphere.org/post/2018-03-23-julia/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://photonsphere.org/post/2018-03-23-julia/ <p>A high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for numerical computing. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. – <a href="https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia">Julia</a> (by <a href="https://julialang.org/">JuliaLang</a>).</p>