IJulia: iPython Notebook for Julia

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To be clear: IJulia is still in a pre-release state but we're working on getting it ready for general consumption in the next couple of weeks. Fernando Perez's G+ post has a nice write up of the situation:

https://plus.google.com/105051551851350439748/posts/GMNjgaug...

The Julia/Python interop, on the other hand, is already quite mature and complete thanks to the incredible work of Steven G. Johnson (of FFTW fame), who has also done the lion's share of the work on the native Julia kernel for IPython.

There's even an example notebook: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/jdj.mit.edu/~stevenj/IJulia%...

You can do some pretty interesting stuff with this using julia's pycall library: https://github.com/stevengj/PyCall.jl

Amazing how people achieve to put an uppercase I to IJulia, but not IPython! :-)

Who is using Julia? Is it gaining traction in the academic community?

Definitely seeing activity in the machine learning community, and a colleague and I are introducing it to the optimization/operations research community: http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_HTML/2013/05/3883.html

I think grad students make an obvious target audience. They both write a lot of code, and (often) have freedom to choose their tools. My impression is that that's where much of the original momentum for Python in the scientific community came from as well.

I was one of these grad students a few years ago :)

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