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but the whole point of using Julia is that you don't need C(relatively same speed). Why would you interface it a Scientific Computing library written in C. Also C doesn't really sound like a good language for Scientific Computing. People do SC in Python and which is why Julia i.e. to solve two language problems and mind boggling speeds like C with syntax like Python

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C is an excellent language for scientific computing. A lot of low-level and high-level libraries for scientific computing are written in C. Toolchain support is excellent. It is maybe less good a putting some scripts together quickly.

what are some of these libraries that are written in C but don't have python bindings if I may ask. Genuine question the once I have seen have python binding and that's why they are super popular and widely used.

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