"Coming from using Matlab, Julia was pretty easy, and I was surprised by how easy it was to write pretty fast code. Obviously the speed, conciseness and dynamic nature of Julia is a big plus and the initial draw, but there are other perhaps unexpected benefits. For example, I’ve learned …

“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 …