Julia's makers only unveiled release 1.0 last August with the promise it would "change the technical world by combining the high-level productivity and ease of use of Python and R with the ...

Despite taking several years to become fully popularised, Python continues to dominate the programming sphere thanks to its clean and relatable syntax, readability, and ease of learning for beginners.

Julia, created in 2009 by MIT researchers, made its public debut in 2012 and over the past year has quickly climbed the ranks of the world's most popular languages. It's still not as popular Python, ...

Qualities such as speed and scalability make Julia an attractive alternative to Python, R, and MATLAB for data science and mathematical computation, Tiobe said. Julia, a high-performance dynamic ...