Does anyone use Julia programming language? [closed]

Question

Is anyone using Julia (http://julialang.org/) for professional jobs?

Or using it instead of R, Matlab, or Mathematica?

Is it a good language?

If you have to predict next 5-10 years: Do you think it grow up enough to became such a standard in data science like R or similar?

Answer 1

I personally have used Julia for a good number of professional projects, and while, as Dirk mentioned, this is purely conjecture, I can give some insights on where Julia really stands out. The question of whether or not these reasons will prove enough to have Julia succeed as a language is anyone's guess.

• Distributed Systems: Julia is the easiest language I've ever dealt with in terms of building distributed systems. This is becoming more and more relevant in computing, and will potentially become a deciding factor, but the question of whether or not Julia'a relative ease decides this is up for debate
• JIT Performance: Julia's JIT compiler is extremely fast, and while there is a lot of debate as to how accurate these benchmark numbers are, the Julia Website shows a series of relevant benchmarks
• Community: This is an area where Julia just isn't quite there. The community that is there is generally supportive, but not quite as knowledgable as the R or python communities, which is a definite minus.
• Extensibility: This is another place where Julia is currently lacking, there is a large disconnect between the implies code patterns that Julia steers you toward and what it can actually support. The type system is currently overly bulky and difficult to use effectively.

Again, can't say what this means for the future, but these are just a couple of relevant points when it comes to evaluating Julia in my opinion.

Answer 2

There is really no question here as you ask for pure conjectures but consider at least that

• this week has Julia Con, the first Julia conference
• you could search GitHub and/or the registered Julia modules