Keynote: Why Julia by Viral B Shah at Functional Conf 2015

In this talk, I will talk about our motivation for creating Julia. Julia is a highlevel, highperformance dynamic programming language. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. Julias Base library, largely written in Julia itself, also integrates mature, bestofbreed open source C and Fortran libraries for linear algebra, random number generation, signal processing, and string processing. In addition, the Jul br, br,