Practical Julia

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book obviously could not exist without Julia, and for Julia, I’m grateful to its creators, Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral B. Shah, and Alan Edelman. Their vision for a new language for scientific computing must have seemed wildly ambitious at the time, but a decade later it has more than delivered on all its promises.

Thanks to the hundreds of developers and maintainers of Julia’s packages for science, mathematics, and graphics. The word ecosystem is certainly overused, but Julia’s composability eases the formation of symbiotic combinations that place unprecedented, expressive power at the numericist’s fingertips.

Thanks to my children, Gianna and Maxwell, to whom this volume is dedicated, for suffusing my long nights ...