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| {{Infobox programming language
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| | name = Julia
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| | logo = Julia prog language.svg
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| | screenshot = <!-- filename is enough -->
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| | paradigm = [[multi-paradigm programming language|Multi-paradigm]]: [[multiple dispatch]] (core), [[procedural programming|procedural]], [[functional programming|functional]], [[metaprogramming|meta]], [[multistaged programming|multistaged]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://medium.com/@acidflask/smoothing-data-with-julia-s-generated-functions-c80e240e05f3#.615wk3dle |title=Smoothing data with Julia's @generated functions |quote=Julia's generated functions are closely related to the multistaged programming (MSP) paradigm popularized by Taha and Sheard, which generalizes the compile time/run time stages of program execution by allowing for multiple stages of delayed code execution. |date=5 November 2015 |accessdate=9 December 2015}}</ref>
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| | released = {{Start date and age|2012}}<ref name="announcement"/>
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| | designer = Jeff Bezanson, [[Alan Edelman]], [[Stefan Karpinski]], [[Viral B. Shah]]
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| | developer = Jeff Bezanson, [[Stefan Karpinski]], [[Viral B. Shah]], and other contributors<ref name="license">{{cite web
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| | url = https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/LICENSE.md
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| | title = LICENSE.md
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| | publisher = [[GitHub]]
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| }}</ref><ref>{{cite web
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| | url = https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/graphs/contributors
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| | title = Contributors to JuliaLang/julia
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| | publisher = [[GitHub]]
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| }}</ref>
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| | latest release version = 1.2.0<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/releases/tag/v1.2.0 |title=v1.2.0 |website=Github.com |date=2019-08-20 |accessdate=2019-08-20}}</ref>
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| | latest release date = {{Start date and age|2019|08|20|df=yes}}
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| | latest preview version = 1.3.0-rc2<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/releases/tag/v1.3.0-rc2|title=v1.3.0-rc2 |website=GitHub|language=en|access-date=2019-09-13}}</ref>
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| | latest preview date = {{Start date and age|2019|09|12|df=yes}} / 1.4.0-DEV with daily updates
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| | typing = [[dynamic programming language|Dynamic]], [[nominal type system|nominative]], [[parametric polymorphism|parametric]], [[optional typing|optional]]
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| | implementations =
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| | dialects =
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| | influenced by = {{startflatlist}}
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| * [[C (programming language)|C]]<ref name="announcement"/>
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| * [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]]<ref name="announcement"/><!--only the parser implemented by femtolisp, a [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]]-like implementation (see: "unsupported" "julia --lisp" that invokes it, but its only influence on the language/syntax – Lisp-like macros? Maybe not even Lisp's CLOS "multimethods"? as Dylan with "multiple dispatch" was cut from the list-->
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| * [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]]<ref name="Introduction">{{Cite web|url=https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/|title=<!--Chapter: Introduction under --> Home · The Julia Language|website=docs.julialang.org|language=en|access-date=2018-08-15}}</ref>
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| * [[Mathematica]]<ref name="announcement"/> (strictly its [[Wolfram Language]]<ref name="announcement"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://fatiherikli.github.io/programming-language-network/ |title=Programming Language Network |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=6 December 2016}}</ref>)
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| * [[MATLAB]]<ref name="announcement"/>
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| * [[Perl]]<ref name="Introduction"/>
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| * [[Python (programming language)|Python]]<ref name="Introduction"/>
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| * [[R (programming language)|R]]<ref name="announcement"/>
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| * [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]]<ref name="Introduction"/>
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| * [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]]<ref name="JuliaCon2016">{{cite web |url=http://www.juliacon.org |title=JuliaCon 2016 |publisher=JuliaCon |quote="He has co-designed the programming language Scheme, which has greatly influenced the design of Julia"|accessdate=6 December 2016}}</ref>
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| {{endflatlist}}
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| | influenced =
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| | programming language = Julia, [[C (programming language)|C]],<!--"Remove when C11 is required for C code" https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=C11&type=
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| "These roughly follows the c11/c++11 memory model [..] The only exception is the GC safepoint and GC state transitions [..] We use the compiler intrinsics to implement a similar API to the c11/c++11" https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/44f3d7c921cbe50105a54258db2febb65a4b9d44/src/julia_threads.h
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| --> [[C++]], [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]], [[LLVM]]<ref name="JuliaHome">{{cite web |url=https://julialang.org/ |title=Julia |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=<!--None listed.--> |website=Julia |publisher=NumFocus project |access-date=9 December 2016 |quote=Julia's Base library, largely written in Julia itself, also integrates mature, best-of-breed open source C and Fortran libraries for ...}}</ref>
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| | platform = Tier 1: [[x86-64]], [[IA-32]], [[CUDA]]<br> Tier 2: [[ARM architecture|ARM]] (both 32- and 64-bit) and Tier 3: [[PowerPC]]<br> Also has web browser support (for [[JavaScript]] and [[WebAssembly]])<ref name="WebAssembly"/>
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| | operating system = [[Linux]], [[macOS]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] and <!-- no longer just community support for --> [[FreeBSD]]
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| | license = [[MIT License|MIT]] (core),<ref name="license"/><!--for core language while, by default, "the environment, which consists of the language, user interfaces, and libraries, is under the GPL"--> [[General Public Licence|GPL v2]];<ref name="JuliaHome" /><ref>{{cite newsgroup|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/v4OjEK7azBs |title=Non-GPL Julia? |website=Groups.google.com |date= |accessdate=2017-05-31}}</ref><!--as some few libraries used by the standard library (that can be excluded) are [[copyleft]]--> a [[makefile]] option omits GPL libraries<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/10870 |title=Introduce USE_GPL_LIBS Makefile flag to build Julia without GPL libraries |quote=Note that this commit does not remove GPL utilities such as git and busybox that are included in the Julia binary installers on Mac and Windows.<!--dropped as of 0.5 then only libgit2--> It allows building from source with no GPL library dependencies.}}</ref>
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| | file ext = .jl
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| | website = {{Official website|https://JuliaLang.org|name=JuliaLang.org}}
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| }}
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| Julia is a numerical computation and general purpose high-level programming language. | | Julia is a numerical computation and general purpose high-level programming language. |
| It's standout feature is its performance which allows libraries to be written in Julia directly. | | It's standout feature is its performance which allows libraries to be written in Julia directly. |
| In contrast, many libraries in [[R]] and [[Python]] are written in [[C]] or [[C++]] for performance purposes and accessed using Rcpp or Cython. | | In contrast, many libraries in [[R]] and [[Python]] are written in [[C (programming language)]] or [[C++]] for performance purposes and accessed using Rcpp or Cython. |
| If necessary, you can still interface with other languages. | | If necessary, you can still interface with other languages. |
| See [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introducing_Julia Introducing Julia] for a comprehensive guide on how to program in Julia. | | See [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introducing_Julia Introducing Julia] for a comprehensive guide on how to program in Julia. |