2016-11-07 The Infancy of Julia: An Inside Look at How Traders and Economists Are Using the Julia Programming Language

It is already gaining Wall Street’s attention, notes Keith Lubell, CTO at investment bank Berkery Noyes. “What really excites us is that it’s interesting that you can write high-level, scientific and numerical computing but without having to re-translate that,” he says. “Usually, if you have something in R or Matlab and you want to make it go fast, you have to re-translate it to C++, or some other faster language; with Julia, you don’t—it sits right on top.”