Quo Vadis, Julia?
What have I missed?, quite a lot you may be thinking. What I want to do in this final section is just to highlight some of these aspects and perhaps pull the threads together and see what I might conclude as to where Julia might be going from now (viz., Xmas 2023).
Julia’s original reason for existence over 10 years ago was that it compiled its source code into native code, hence providing a great reduction in execution times. But what one can create, another can emulate, and I have seen that coming out of the MIT stable, following on from Julia, is a system called Codon that purports to do the same to the ubiquitous Python language: https://github.com/exaloop/codon.
In a year when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected supergalaxies where there should be nothing at all, implying the Big Bang (Alan Guth’s) cosmic inflation theory, dark matter, and energy may all be incorrect, this may be a futile occupation, but I hope at least it will...
