Julia

In the past, I’ve written pretty glowingly about Julia. It’s been a few years since I first used Julia in 2019, and it hasn’t completely replaced Python for me. However, I wanted to share a few neat projects that I’ve done using it which would have been much more painful without it, and share what I think now about what I wrote in 2019. Implementing a Statistical Metric on the GPU Being able to access heterogenous compute is important to be able to make the most of the availible hardware....

There is a constant problem with programming language design: fast, generic, easy to write; pick two. The principle is that programming languages cannot be all three at once. Code that is Fast and Generic like C++ isn’t exactly easy to write. Code that is Generic and easy to write like Python isn’t always fast in the sense that C/C++ programmers mean it. Code that is Fast and Easy to Write isn’t always Generic in the sense that Python is....