Python now a top-3 programming language as Julias rise speeds up
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According to TIOBE, Python is now becoming "increasingly ubiquitous" and a top choice at universities for all subjects that require programming, as well as in industry.But once again Julia has appeared in TIOBEs "interesting moves" picks, rising from 50th place in August -- its first entry in the top 50 list -- to 39th position in September.Its also used at over 700 universities and research bodies, and counts finance users such as Aviva, BlackRock, Capital One, as well as streaming giant Netflix.And Julia has earned its stripes as the language used to build the supercomputer application Celeste, which was used to process the Sloan Digital Sky Survey dataset and accurately catalog 188 million astronomical objects in 14.6 minutes.Released in 2012, Julia is designed to combine the speed of C with the usability of Python, the dynamism of Ruby, the mathematical prowess of MatLab, and the statistical chops of R.
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