1 Why Julia?
This chapter covers
- The type of problems Julia solves
- The benefits of a fast, dynamically typed language
- How Julia increases programmer productivity
You can choose from hundreds of programming languages—many of them much more popular than Julia. So why pick Julia?
How would you like to write code faster than you have done before? How about building systems with a fraction of the number of lines of code you normally require? Surely, such productivity will come at the cost of deplorable performance and high memory consumption. Nope. In fact, Julia is the language of choice for next-generation climate models, which have extreme performance and memory requirements.
I know such accolades may come across like a bad sales pitch from a ...
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