Julia’s Back Pages
The first chapter of this book began with a broad overview of Julia, then we proceeded on to various aspects of the language mainly peculiar to itself, following on with a variety of themed chapters describing how to use Julia in analyzing, displaying, and processing data.
Naturally, various topics had to be omitted or did not fit into the general framework, and it is the purpose of this final chapter to discuss some of these.
Much of the material presented so far has applied to macOS, Linux, and Windows but has been oriented toward the former as the main development has been done on an Apple Mac. However, some of the topics in this chapter are a little different when using a Windows computer, so I will include a separate section to highlight the differences.
So, here’s a main summary of the chapter:
- Configuring Julia and the operating system
- Standalone Julia
- Development tools
- Creating packages
- Whither goes Julia from...
