I guess I can give some historical motivation here. When we started working on Julia in 2009, the Python ecosystem was nowhere near where it is today: PyPy was pretty new (1.0 release 2007, the first version to be able to run any substantial Python app... (more…)

We invite you to take part in the free FlyElephant Webinar (Julia - a fresh approach to numerical computing and data science) on Wednesday, March 20, 9:00 AM (PST) / 19:00 (EET). Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for tec... (more…)

I asked on Twitter a while back “how do you invest in you own learning?” (this tweet. Some common things people replied with: (more…)

A new extension for the Julia programming language for mathematical computing enhances the Julia compiler to generate native code for CUDA GPUs... (more…)

TL;DR: FemtoCleaner is a GitHub bot that upgrades old Julia syntax to new syntax. It has been installed in more than 700 repositories, submitted 100+ pull requests and touched 10000 lines of code since last Friday. Scroll down for instructions, screen sho... (more…)