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5 Reasons you should learn Julia in 2021

Manpreet Singh
4 min readJun 16, 2021

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Welcome back! Julia is a (somewhat) newer programming language that’s been around several years, although it is a fairly new language it still has quite a bit of capability, so let’s talk about 5 reasons why you should learn this language in 2021!

Free / Open Source

Starting off, this language is completely free and open source! This is easily one of the best reasons to learn / use this language. There are several programming languages that require licenses, i’ve always found this to be a hurdle to jump over when learning a language, luckily for Julia that is not the case. This language is also open source, so you can always contribute to this language as well!

Speed

Next up we have one of the biggest advantage for using Julia, the speed of this language. Julia compiles to native code, this makes this language much faster than some of the competitors (including Python for certain tasks), take a look at this chart to see the potential of Julia…

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Manpreet Singh
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