6.1 Introduction to Scientific Computing in Julia
What is Julia?
- https://julialang.org/
- Development started in 2009 at MIT and first appeared in February 2012
- High-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for numerical computing
- Free and open-source
- Provides ease and expressiveness for high-level numerical computing (similar to R, MATLAB, and Python), but also supports general programming
- Performance Metrics: (https://julialang.org/benchmarks/)
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