Is Julia a general purpose programming language? I mean I did check the web site which contains a "General Purpose" section, yet the articles seem to center around "scientific applications".
Is Julia a general purpose programming language? I mean I did check the web site which contains a "General Purpose" section, yet the articles seem to center around "scientific applications".
In the release 1.12 they finally implemented the ability to create compact executables, so I would say the answer to your question is "yes".
it is a general purpose language, but it's happy place is math. Most languages (except Fortan Matlab and R) are very much oriented towards writing web servers/compilers etc, so Julia gets lots of wins in science just by virtue of caring more about math.
Julia is a completely reasonable general purpose language, but getting people to switch generally requires a ~10x better experience, and Julia can't deliver that for general purpose applications.