"Julia has two main advantages from our perspective. First, as free software, Julia is more accessible to users from academic institutions or organizations without the resources for purchasing a license. Now anyone, from Kathmandu to Timbuktu, can run our code at no cost."

“Julia has helped us increase our effectiveness as programmers and allows us to become productive quickly in a number of domains that normally require a large up-front investment in study time. A good example is GPU programming where we can begin loading data into CuArrays.jl for performance improvements before learning …