The Fast Track to Julia

Julia is a fairly new and promising programming language that is designed for technical computing. Here I present a cheat sheet, or rather cheat page, with the salient features.

Interested? Head on over to ianhellstrom.org/julia.html.

Q&A

Why a cheat page rather than a sheet?

A cheat sheet is nice to print out and sellotape to the wall next to your desk. However, a piece of paper has a few disadvantages:

• Space is very limited.
• It has a non-positive environmental impact.
• It is static and after printing it can quickly become outdated.
• You cannot have nice tooltips — no, a footnote is not the same!

Sure, you can scribble on it, but I think an HTML page makes for a much nicer overview. Plus, you can easily share it with your colleagues and friends.

Who is the cheat page for?

Anyone who is interested in or already working with Julia and needs a quick reference.

You have made a mistake. Can you fix it?

Just send me an email using the icon at the bottom, and I’ll fix it as soon as possible.

There’s nothing new on there. WTF?!

Correct. The cheat page is intended to summarize the most important aspects of the Julia language. And by ‘most important’ I mean the ones I deem the most important.

What’s next?

Well, now that I have a better picture of Julia, I hope to use Julia more frequently — I know that sounds a bit dirty. Perhaps even write about it. So, keep watching this space for more details.