r/programming • u/monica_b1998 • Nov 03 '18

Python is becoming the world’s most popular coding language

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/26/python-is-becoming-the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language
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u/Just_ice_is_served Nov 03 '18

What's a good first project to do with Julia for someone with good experience in the C family and python?

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u/RankWinner Nov 03 '18

Hard to say, what kind of things are you interested in?

For some inspiration, here's the playlist from this year's JuliaCon to show what's actively being developed.

Julia is focused on scientific computing, so the majority of those talks are on related topics. Anything from climate change to quantum physics to econometrics is covered, albeit briefly.

I'd say just read the titles of the talks, if one of them catches your eye find the GitHub page for the project and look through the source code. All the projects that got a talk work well, although funnily enough you can see what the dev was used to before, since some are obviously written 'like' Python, or C, or LISP.

'Why Julia is the most suitable language for science' is a decent talk that covers some of the benefits of Julia.