Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments.
Julia provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. The language is also suitable for interactive use: its built-in documentation, shell-like capabilities for managing other processes, and a package manager for connecting to existing code repositories make it easy to use Julia for exploratory work.
Julia's just-in-time (JIT) compiler combined with the language's design allows it to provide speedups comparable to statically-compiled languages like C, while also being more convenient to work with than languages like Python and R.