Julia
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high-performance dynamic programming language
Key facts
- Paradigm
- Multi-paradigm : multiple dispatch (primary paradigm), functional , array , procedural ( imperative ), structured , reflective , meta , multistaged
- Designed by
- Jeff Bezanson , Alan Edelman , Stefan Karpinski , Viral B. Shah
- Developer
- Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral B. Shah, and other contributors
- First appeared
- 2012 ; 14 years ago ( 2012 )
- Stable release
- 1.12.6 / 10 April 2026 ; 55 days ago ( 10 April 2026 ) and 1.10.11 ( LTS )
- Preview release
- 1.13.0-beta3 / 4 February 2026 ; 4 months ago ( 2026-02-04 )
- Typing discipline
- Dynamic , inferred , optional , nominative , parametric , strong
- Implementation language
- Julia, C , C++ , LLVM , Scheme
- Os
- Linux , macOS , Windows 10+ and FreeBSD
- License
- MIT
- Filename extensions
- .jl
- Website
- JuliaLang.org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Julia is a dynamic general-purpose programming language. As a high-level language, distinctive aspects of Julia's design include a type system with parametric polymorphism, the use of multiple dispatch as a core programming paradigm, just-in-time compilation and a parallel garbage collection implementation. Notably, Julia does not support classes with encapsulated methods but instead relies on the types of all of a function's arguments to determine which method will be called.
By default, Julia is run similarly to scripting languages, using its runtime, and allows for interactions, but Julia programs can also be compiled to small binary standalone executables (or to small libraries for e.g. Python), with e.g. the JuliaC.jl compiler.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Julia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.