"I chose Julia for the majority of the analyses, mainly because I felt it made my code clearer, more reproducible and easier to work with. Running the analyses was much faster in Julia than it had been in R, which I had used at the beginning of the project. In …

"A lot of our work involves solving mathematical models of the world in which the future is uncertain. Our workhorse is a solution algorithm called Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming (SDDP). This works by solving hundreds of thousands of linear programs so speed is important."