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Human-Cabbagetoday at 7:04 AM1 replyview on HN

Julia is aimed at scientific computing. It competes against Python with numpy/scipy, R, etc.


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ziotom78today at 7:30 AM

Correct, but I would add: Julia is better than Python+NumPy/SciPy when you need extreme speed in custom logic that can’t be easily vectorized. As Julia is JIT-compiled, if your code calls most of the functions just once it won’t provide a big advantage, as the time spent compiling functions can be significant (e.g., if you use some library heavily based on macros).

To produce plots out of data files, Python and R are probably the best solutions.

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