We want a language that’s homoiconic, with true macros like Lisp, but with obvious, familiar mathematical notation like Matlab. We want something as usable for general programming as Python ...

Python, a language that's developed a strong affinity ... the IEEE Spectrum rankings and is now among the top 20 languages." MATLAB, another Julia rival in statistical analysis, saw its share ...

They opted for Julia. Launched in 2012, Julia is an open-source language that combines the interactivity and syntax of ‘scripting’ languages, such as Python, Matlab and R, with the speed of ...