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Julia v1.10 Improves Performance, and Gnuplot Gets Pie Charts
Julia 1.0 was released in 2018 — after a six-year wait. And there's now another update. LWN.net gets you up to speed, calling Julia "a general-purpose, open-source programming language with a focus on high-performance scientific computing." Some of Julia's unusual features: - Lisp-inspire...
Julia 1.0 was released in 2018 — after a six-year wait.- Lisp-inspired metaprogramming - The ability to examine compiled representations of code in the REPL or in a " reactive notebook" - An advanced type and dispatch system - A sophisticated, built-in package manager. It also features a new parser written in Julia... [I]t is faster, it produces more useful syntax-error messages, and it provides better source-code mapping, which associates locations in compiled code to their corresponding lines in the source. lee1 also reminds us that Gnuplot 6.0 was released in December: lee1 writes: This article surveys the new features, including filled contours in 3D, adaptive plotting resolution, watchpoints, clipping of surfaces, pie charts, and new syntax for conditionals.
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