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by EvanMiller 4540 days ago
I'd just like to add that what I love about Julia is that it actually lets you go deeper than C code. For high-performance computing it's easy to hit a wall with C (i.e. with SIMD vector instructions), and it's fairly difficult to jump the barrier to programming assembly. Julia makes it easy to muck around with the generated LLVM IR code as well as native assembly code. You can go as deep as you want without leaving the Julia REPL.