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Julia

• Why use Julia
  • Why Julia
    • Type dispatch and specialization to optimistically make things fast
    • This reminds me a little bit of javascript
    • Python... I'm actually not sure about how primitive numbers are stored in Python and should look into it
  • Productivity in Julia
    • REPL
    • Packages -- first class consideration
    • Free vectorization when required
  • OOPSLA Julia
• Programming tips
  • From Contributing to Julia
    • use Revise to autoload code changes, with Revise.track
• Contributing
  • Interesting issues:
    • https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/41533 -- building a DFA

— Kunal