"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."

"We were constrained by MATLAB in terms of programming style (vectorization was the only way), available libraries (no hash table, for instance), cost (new release and toolboxes), parallelization (no way to do generic parallel processing or threading), speed (no way to hyper-optimize critical MATLAB code without dropping to C/C++/Fortran), and …