In this episode of Open Source Directions we were joined by Jeff Bezanson and Katie Hyatt who talk about the work they have been doing with Julia. Julia is a programming language that was designed from the beginning for high performance. It programs compile to native code for multiple platforms via LLVM. Julia is dynamically typed, feels like a scripting language, and has good support for interactive use.

Julia has a rich language of descriptive datatypes, and type declarations can be used to clarify and solidify programs. This language uses multiple dispatch as a paradigm, making it easy to express many object-oriented and functional programming patterns. It provides asynchronous I/O, debugging, logging, profiling, a package manager, and more.