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How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language

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Re: How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language

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Post by cmontella » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 2:51 PM UTC

Qem wrote: post #130

cmontella wrote: post #77

I did some Julia benchmarking over the weekend against a bunch of languages if anyone is interested. The workload is an EKF on an Apple M1, I'm trying to do as many as possible in parallel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mech-lang/mech/codex/taich... Compared against Taichi, Halide, Futhark, Rust', Lua, LuaJIT, Numpy and pure scalar Python. Julia holds up great it can run basically as fast as you'd like! (These ar…

Nice. Suggestion: Add PyPy too.

Done, see reply to sibling.

Re: How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language

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Post by ChrisRackauckas » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 9:34 AM UTC

klaff wrote: post #102

4563lk wrote: post #53

Unfortunately Julia is now a vibe coded project where Claude has moved to the #1 spot for Jun-Aug 2026. Of course their sponsors demand it. So it is in the same place as Ruby: interesting but out of the question.

What's with all the throwaway snide comment accounts?

They are green too, which means they were just made today. That's a pretty nice HN feature! It shows that there's literally 5 adversarial green sock puppet accounts that were made just to comment in this thread, so almost certainly one person with a grudge who is afraid to make a non-anonymous argument on the merits.

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