Meet Julia, the One Programming Language to Rule Them All

  • I like Julia, but their multi-machine stuff needs a jolt.

    I spent some time with HDFS.jl and trying to re-do spawn to launch tasks onto a HADOOP/YARN cluster, but couldn't really get @everywhere includes to work.

    But oherwise compared say R, which runs on a cluster, the SSH based communication methods of Julia kinda made it difficult to run it anywhere beyond small data land.

    It would kick-ass to use on a cluster, if only it could do that & distribute keys on a total order partitioner like radix-sort.