Kodsnack

We chat with Stefan Karpinski, creator of the Julia programming language, live on stage during Øredev 2014. Topics include defiding to build a new language, the interesting unsolved problems of numerical computing, concurrency solutions, developing with and on LLVM, handling deprecation nicely, things (possibly) in the future for Julia and why Swift is exciting for Julia and other languages. This recording exists as good as it is thanks to Stephen Chin of nighthacking.com for providing and masterfully wrangling all the necessary technology. There is a minute and a half of worse audio quality just after the nine minute mark, where microphone problems forced us to fill in with audio from our backup microphone. Comments, thoughts or suggestions? Discuss this episode at Techworld! Links Stefan Karpinski Julia programming language Scientific computing Viral Shah Jeff Bezanson MATLAB R programming language Python C extension Goldilocks Goldilocks principle Dylan Garbage collection Unboxed data Complex number Julia