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Re:Some Insights from a Julia Developer by parenthephobia on Saturday October 14, 2017 @12:48PM (#15472975)
Perhaps it's a borderline case, but I've used Julia to make a "big data" database server, backed by a mmap'ed column store.

Because the compiler's available at run-time, queries can be compiled into efficient kernels that can run in parallel over multi-gigabyte arrays orders of magnitude faster than MySQL or Postgres on the same hardware.

Without Julia, I would have had to find some other way to compile queries into machine code at run-time, which for me would have ruled out all the languages you listed. In practical terms I would have abandoned the project.

Re:Some Insights from a Julia Developer by flavio81 on Saturday October 14, 2017 @04:08PM (#15473979)
Excellent use case.

>Without Julia, I would have had to find some other way to compile queries into machine code at run-time

Note that you could also do it in Common Lisp.

But I agree, Julia is very powerful, perhaps one of the most powerful recent languages.