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Re:What's Great about Julia? by m_nyongesa on Thursday December 08, 2022 @05:53AM (#33906549)
I don't understand what the Julia language offers over for example OCaml, which has a solid type system yet also has a REPL as well as a scientific computing library:

https://ocaml.xyz/

https://ocaml.xyz/docs/

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Re:What's Great about Julia? by galangalalgol on Thursday December 08, 2022 @06:01AM (#33906600)
Performance (c-like is stretching it, but not by much) and existing libraries for everything I can imagine.
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Re:What's Great about Julia? by dunefox on Thursday December 08, 2022 @08:10AM (#33907491)
Usable strings come to mind.
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