Since the beginning of Julia, it has been tempting to use macros to write domain-specific languages (DSLs), i.e. to extend Julia syntax to provide a simpler interface to create Julia objects with complicated behaviour. The first, and still most extensive,... (more…)

After a lengthy design process and preliminary foundations in Julia 0.5, Julia 0.6 includes new facilities for writing code in the “vectorized” style (familiar from Matlab, Numpy, R, etcetera) while avoiding the overhead that this style of programming...

It has been a year and a half since I wrote the first version of this tutorial and it is time for an update. Knet (pronounced “kay-net”)...

Hello! Last week I posted a small programming challenge to write a tiny window manager that bounces windows around the screen. (more…)

julia - The Julia Language: A fresh approach to technical computing. (more…)