Programming Language

Julia

Multi-Paradigm Language

Julia is a dynamic, general-purpose programming language designed for technical and scientific computing. It was created by Jeff Bezanson, Alan Edelman, Stefan Karpinski and Viral B. Shah, who published a website and blog post describing its mission on February 14, 2012. The language is built around multiple dispatch as its core paradigm, alongside parametric polymorphism, just-in-time compilation and parallel garbage collection, and its type system is dynamic, inferred, optional, nominative, parametric and strongly typed. Rather than traditional object-oriented classes, Julia dispatches methods based on the types of all of a function arguments. It has been adopted for numerical and technical computing by organizations including NASA, pharmaceutical companies such as Moderna, Pfizer and AstraZeneca, financial institutions such as JPMorgan and BlackRock, and research bodies such as CERN and MIT. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts

First Released

2012 2

Paradigm

Multiple dispatch, dynamic, just-in-time compiled 2

Significance

Aimed to close the gap between the ease of dynamic scripting languages and the speed of compiled languages for numerical and scientific computing. 2

Classification

Typing Discipline

Dynamically Typed 1

Typing Discipline

Strongly Typed 1