"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 …

"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 …