Add to that its ease of use—Julia’s syntax is straightforward and intuitive, similar to that of Python, meaning it can be used extensively for exploratory programming and data analysis.

But Julia requires more programming skills than Python, R, and MATLAB, he added. Tiobe gauges language popularity through a formula that assesses searches of programming languages in popular ...

Julia is a relatively new programming language — it was formalized 13 years ago — making its rapid ascent particularly notable. TIOBE Software ranks 100 programming languages by their ...