Re-posted from: http://abelsiqueira.github.io/a-study-in-julia/
Today I begin a study in Julia.
This fantastic tool has syntax similar to that of Octave/Matlab,
but is much faster. Furthermore, the interface with functions
made in C and Fortran is much easier to accomplish, and since
most things in computational mathematics are on these languages,
this feature is wonderful.
My intented work is
- make a simple julia and C interface, with auto-compiling
and test on GitHub and Travis CI; - develop a nonlinear optimization tool completely in Julia,
then improve the slow bits by using C and/or Fortran; - implement/improve the CUTEst interface
[1],
[2],
possibly creating a SIF converter. - if things work out, submit to JuliaOpt.
My work starts with the Julia-C
Samples.
If you need me, I might be on #julia on IRC/freenode.