Introduction to Julia
summary
Julia claims to remove the two‑language problem by using LLVM JIT so high‑level code runs like C and shows that by implementing Newton’s method, calling C libraries via Ccall, and plotting through PyCall to matplotlib. A demo runs ~110,000 iterations, initially causing 1 GB allocations when written with globals then yielding a 20× speedup and far fewer allocations after moving code into functions. Notes point to trying it in Julia box comm or installing with pkg add.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Julia introduction
- 2:53Why create a new language
- 8:43First steps in Jupyter
- 27:45Newton's method in Julia
- 40:55Performance tips
- 53:20Julia types and dispatch
- 1:17:27Extending Julia with types
- 1:32:43Calling C and Python
- 1:54:35Resources and future
