# Julia

Julia is an open source dynamic programming language for high-level, high-performance numerical computing \[[1](#references)]. Julia provides ease and expressiveness (similar to R, MATLAB, and Python), but also supports general programming \[[2](#references)]. 

Development of Julia began in 2009, and the first version was released in February 2012. The current version of Julia is 1.11 (as of November 2024).

## References

1. [Julia Website](https://julialang.org/)
2. [Julia Documentation](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/)

## Resources

* [Julia Performance Metrics](https://julialang.org/benchmarks/)
* [ThinkJulia: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist](https://benlauwens.github.io/ThinkJulia.jl/latest/book.html)
* [Julia Data Science](https://juliadatascience.io/preface)
* Learn X in Y Minutes: [X=Julia](https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/julia/)
* [Julia Cheat Sheet](https://juliadocs.github.io/Julia-Cheat-Sheet/)
* [Introducing Julia Wikibook](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introducing_Julia)
* [JuliaHealth](https://juliahealth.org/)


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