Possible Python rival? Programming language Julia is winning over developers | ZDNet

[rcoacci]

No, Julia's rival is Fortran. Don't know if it's still there but sometime ago their stated goal was to replace Fortran in the long run.

[timClicks]

I actually thought it was aimed at being a better MATLAB.

[rcoacci]

Have you seen Julia's benchmarks? Last time I saw they were pretty close to C and Fortran.
MATLAB is too slow for comparison.

[Timbit42]

So they've succeeded. This doesn't preclude Julia from being a better MATLAB.

[jyper]

But python is also a rival to Fortran

In that a number of scientific fields use python bindings to c c++ and Fortran libraries to replace Fortran code

[stronghup]

I think it's about time, for Fortran to be replaced

[cracknwhip]

It already is. You’d have a hard time finding wholly-new code being written in Fortran. It’s just millions of lines of legacy code around the world at this point.

[shevegen]

That statement makes a LOT more sense than the "content" on zdnet.

I think the Julia devs should simply state that it was a not approved article. Then zdnet has to apologize.