Leibniz MMS Days 2020 - Abstract

Fuhrmann, Jürgen

The Julia Programming Language: an overview

The Julia programming language is gaining increasing attraction in scientific computing, data analysis, machine learning and other fields. Some of its outstanding features are:

• open source license
• easy-to-learn syntax
• powerful abstractions and generic programming features
• high performance potential due to just-in-time compiling
• extensibility and reproducibility via sophisticated package management
• portability among operating systems
• re-use of existing codebase via interfaces to other

The talk provides an example-based introduction into Julia and some of its basic concepts and discusses examples where recent research at WIAS was able to take advantage of Julia.