Re-posted from: http://plopezadeva.com/2020/11/08/julia-first-impressions/
Intro
I have been a happy Python user for more than 20 years. I use it daily
as a data scientist with the classical scientific stack and a little
of PyTorch when I get fancy.
Recently I have decided to give Julia a
try. I must admit I was skeptical. Is it worthy? I think yes.
Let me say that I was surprised by Julia’s design but that is the
subject for another post. This post is about what everyone thinks is
the differentiating Julia advantage:
speed.
The main conclusion is that it’s possible in a practical way to
obtain near C speed. Julia will not make your code run fast
automagically but it’s a power tool that in trained hands can achieve
good results.
I’m still a Julia newbie so I wouldn’t be surprised if something I did
can be better done or something I wrote is