Julia

Last month I taught @julia and its geospatial stack at the @opengeohub summer school 2023 in beautiful Poznań, Poland. I had a great time together with other open-source developers. Pictured is me calling in from the train home, because I won a hackathon by using Julia 🥳.

My materials (including the notebooks for the hackathons) are at https://github.com/evetion/OGH2023 and the recording(s) are at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgMdr8vE9uM&list=PLXUoTpMa%5C_9s1C8LrkslIctOU31Oi0LAQa.

Initial commit was June 11. Documentation is here.

Julia has hit the TIOBE index top 20. This is the first time in history! Born about 13 years ago, Julia is a really young programming language. So what makes Julia unique? Why does it deserve this top 20 position? Julia is especially used in the data science and mathematical computation world. But we already have got top 20 contenders in this field such as Python, R and MATLAB. So why then Julia?

I just tried my first problem on Codewars and realised: This solution feels like cheating

“We are very excited by this new strategic investment from AEI HorizonX,” said Dr. Viral Shah, Chief Executive Officer of JuliaHub. “In recent years, Julia’s superior speed and ease of use have been put to work for pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and United Therapeutics, and for aerospace applications at NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing. This investment allows us to continue to develop and help deploy Julia’s capabilities across all industries.”

Hey, I thought I could spark some discussion here, so I'll just ask what I've been wondering about.

So, what is the difference between JuMP and Optim.jl? Or is it possible to use Optim's optimizers with JuMP?

Some ELI5 would be awesome.

Thanks

A quick overview of the Julia Programming language.

The 2023 Julia User & Developer Survey is now open!

Julia users and developers are encouraged to participate. The survey is available in English, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese and Korean.

Results will be presented at JuliaCon in July.