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Keynote. Professor Steven G. Johnson | JuliaCon 2019

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Python, Ruby & scripting languagesProgramming language designSoftware performance & optimization

What it is

Steven G. Johnson, MIT professor and FFTW co-author, gives a JuliaCon 2019 keynote on metaprogramming and staged programming in Julia, showing how it enables high-performance numerical code and when not to use macros.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited for showing how Julia's metaprogramming can beat C and Fortran, along with sound advice not to overuse it.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “really interesting, informative, entertaining and well delivered.”

    Keynote on metaprogramming in Julia.

    eigenspace, 2019-08 · Strong recommendation · in “JuliaCon 2019 Videos”

  2. “Have a look at Steve Johnson's keynote from JuliaCon 2019”

    Julia enabling higher performance than C libraries.

    ViralBShah, 2020-10 · Recommendation · in “CSV Reader Benchmarks: Julia Reads CSVs 10-20x Faster than Python and R”

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Topics: julia, metaprogramming, high performance computing, macros, numerical computing

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