Julia

Why use Julia
- Why Julia
  - Type dispatch and specialization to optimistically make things fast
  - This reminds me a little bit of javascript
  - Python… I'm actually not sure about how primitive numbers are stored in Python and should look into it
- Productivity in Julia
  - REPL
  - Packages – first class consideration
  - Free vectorization when required
- OOPSLA Julia
Programming tips
- From Contributing to Julia
  - use Revise to autoload code changes, with Revise.track
Contributing
- Interesting issues:
  - https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/41533 – building a DFA