Why Julia? A gentle pitch

My honest opinion on why you want to use Julia. You can access the slides at storopoli.github.io/Why-Julia.

It assumes that you are a Python user that does scientific computing.

Author

Jose Storopoli, PhD - Lattes CV - ORCID - https://storopoli.io

How to use the content?

The content is licensed under a very permissive Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA). You are mostly welcome to contribute with issues and pull requests. My hope is to have more people into Julia.

To configure a local environment:

1. Download and install Julia

2. Clone the repository from GitHub: git clone https://github.com/storopoli/Why-Julia.git

3. Access the directory: cd Why-Julia

4. Activate the environment by typing in the Julia REPL:

   using Pkg
   Pkg.activate(".")
   Pkg.instantiate()

How to cite

To cite these slides, please use:

Storopoli (2023). Why Julia? A gentle pitch. https://storopoli.github.io/Why-Julia.

Or in BibTeX format (LaTeX):

@misc{storopoli2023whyjulia,
  author = {Storopoli, Jose},
  title = {Why Julia? A gentle pitch},
  url = {https://storopoli.github.io/Why-Julia},
  year = {2023}
}

License

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