What is Julia and how does it compare to MATLAB?

[tuclear]

Apparently introducing yourself is a thing here so:

Hello, I'm tuclear. I'm a second year EEE student that enjoys pure mathematics way too much and spends an unhealthy amount of time in my room studying. I also spend a lot of time developing python programs that I think are pretty cool but you probably wouldn't.

Pleased to meet you all.

 

[jedishrfu]

Welcome to PF!

Python is pretty cool for programming.

Have you looked at the Processing.org stuff? It has a python mode.

Or the iPython numerical computing stuff using the Notebook development environment.

http://ipython.org/notebook.html

 

[tuclear]

Welcome to PF!

Python is pretty cool for programming.

Have you looked at the Processing.org stuff? It has a python mode.

Or the iPython numerical computing stuff using the Notebook development environment.

http://ipython.org/notebook.html

Cheers m8

Haven't seen the processing.org stuff but the ipython/numpy/scipy/matplotlib stack is amazing. I really prefer it over MATLAB which I'm unfortunately forced to use for uni (although I'm sure there's plenty that have it the other way round).

 

[jedishrfu]

There's also the Julia stuff that bridges between MATLAB and Python:

http://quant-econ.net/jl/getting_started.html

Julia is positioned as a faster alternative to MATLAB (julialang.org) that works well with python, R and C/C++.​