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```{=typst}
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#set math.equation(numbering: none)
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// some things need to be here, to counter the typst style
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// Some things need to be here to counter the Typst style
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```
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Julia is a relatively young, modern programming language designed for *scientific computing*.
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Julia is a relatively new, modern programming language designed for *scientific computing*.
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A code example:
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## History {.unnumbered}
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- 2009 Start of development at the *Computer Science and Artificial
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Intelligence Laboratory* of MIT
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- 2012 first release v0.1
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- 2018 Version v1.0
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- February 2026: Version v1.12.5
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- 2009: Development started at MIT's *Computer Science and Artificial
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Intelligence Laboratory*
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- 2012: First release (v0.1)
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- 2018: Version 1.0 released
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- February 2026: Version 1.12.5
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In their 2012 inaugural blog post [Why we created Julia](https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia),
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the developers provide an insightful and funny overview of their objectives and motivations for creating Julia.
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the developers provide an insightful and humorous overview of their objectives and motivations for creating Julia.
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For a picture of *Stefan Karpinski, Viral Shah, Jeff
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Bezanson*, and *Alan Edelman*, please
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click here: <https://news.mit.edu/2018/julia-language-co-creators-win-james-wilkinson-prize-numerical-software-1226>.
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A photo of *Stefan Karpinski, Viral Shah, Jeff
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Bezanson*, and *Alan Edelman* can be found
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here: <https://news.mit.edu/2018/julia-language-co-creators-win-james-wilkinson-prize-numerical-software-1226>.
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***high-performance programming language for technical computing***
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- many functions for *scientific computing* built-in,
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- (intentional) similarity to Python, R and Matlab,
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- many functions for *scientific computing* built-in
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- (intentional) similarity to Python, R and Matlab
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- complex calculations in a few lines
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- simple interface to other languages like C or Python
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***a JIT compiler***
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***JIT compilation***
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- interactive work possible: `read-eval-print loop (REPL)` with
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- supports interactive workflow via the `read-eval-print loop (REPL)`
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- just-in-time (JIT) compilation
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- thereby runtimes comparable to static languages like C/C++, Fortran or Rust
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- resulting in runtimes comparable to static languages like C/C++, Fortran, or Rust
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***a built-in package manager***
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## Selected Links {.unnumbered}
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- [Documentation](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/) -- the official documentation
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- [Cheat Sheet](https://cheatsheet.juliadocs.org/) -- "a quick & dirty overview"
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- [Cheat Sheet](https://cheatsheet.juliadocs.org/) -- "a quick overview"
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- [Introducing Julia](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introducing_Julia) -- a WikiBook
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- [The Julia Express](http://bogumilkaminski.pl/files/julia_express.pdf) -- Julia in 16 pages
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- [Think Julia](https://benlauwens.github.io/ThinkJulia.jl/latest/book.html) -- introduction to programming using Julia as first language
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- [The Julia Express](http://bogumilkaminski.pl/files/julia_express.pdf) -- Julia in 16 pages
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- [Think Julia](https://benlauwens.github.io/ThinkJulia.jl/latest/book.html) -- introduction to programming using Julia as first language
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- The [Julia Forum](https://discourse.julialang.org/)
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- For the eyes: [Examples for the Julia graphics package `Makie`](https://beautiful.makie.org/)
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