Julia is a high-level general-purpose dynamic programming language whose designers intend it to address the needs of high-performance numerical analysis and computational science, without the need of separate compilation to be fast.It is also useful for low-level systems programming,as a specification language,with work being done on client and server web use.
Distinctive aspects of Julia's design include a type system with parametric polymorphism and types in a fully dynamic programming language and multiple dispatch as its core programming paradigm. It allows concurrent, parallel and distributed computing, and direct calling of C and Fortran libraries without glue code.
Julia is garbage-collected, uses eager evaluation, and includes efficient libraries for floating-point calculations, linear algebra, random number generation, and regular expression matching. Many libraries are available, including some (e.g., for fast Fourier transforms) that were previously bundled with Julia and are now separate.
