After 2 years of slow but steady development, we would like to announce the first preview release of native GPU programming capabilities for Julia. You can now write your CUDA kernels in Julia, albeit with some restrictions, making it possible to use Juli... (more…)

The Julia community is thrilled to announce the release of version 0.6.0 of the Julia language. With a sweeping overhaul of the type system and numerous improvements to syntax and to the standard library, 0.6.0 is the most transformative release yet. A co... (more…)

In 1998, the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico began imaging every visible object from over 35% of the sky in a project known as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The images include around 500 million stars and galaxies. Light from the most distant of th... (more…)

Julia language is now available for Raspberry Pi, with support for GPIO, the Sense HAT and Minecraft. Scientific computing opportunities galore! (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...