<story><title>Julia: A Fast Language for Numerical Computing</title><url>https://sinews.siam.org/DetailsPage/tabid/607/ArticleID/744/Julia-A-Fast-Language-for-Numerical-Computing.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samuell</author><text>If Julia had Go-style concurrency primitives (channels and lightweight threads), and M:N thread multiplexing, it would be the perfect language to implement my upcoming data flow based scientific workflow language (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;samuell&amp;#x2F;scipipe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;samuell&amp;#x2F;scipipe&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;Now I&amp;#x27;m instead trapped with Go, which lacks a REPL, and leaves a lot to wish in terms of metaprogramming capabilities needed to create a nice programmatic API.&lt;p&gt;The lack of the mentioned features is my biggest concern with Julia.</text></comment>
<story><title>Julia: A Fast Language for Numerical Computing</title><url>https://sinews.siam.org/DetailsPage/tabid/607/ArticleID/744/Julia-A-Fast-Language-for-Numerical-Computing.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kafkaesq</author><text>BTW is it just me, or do other people find that the interpreter is very slow to start under older versions of OS X?&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s one of my current obstacles to diving further into Julia.</text></comment>