A look at the key characteristics of the Julia programming language, as scientists increasingly adopt the language for tackling large-scale numerical problems (Lee Phillips/Ars Technica)

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A look at the key characteristics of the Julia programming language, as scientists increasingly adopt the language for tackling large-scale numerical problems  —  Fortran has ruled scientific computing, but Julia emerged for large-scale numerical work.  —  I've been running into a lot of happy and excited scientists lately.