please add Julia as a language. It is general purpose and has been gaining traction as of late due to AI and more scientific applications becoming more mainstream. You can argue that we have Python, Scala, and Haskell already, but I feel like Julia’s multiple dispatch and its unique ways of doing distributed computing would be very interesting for the platform and give new ways to solve the challenges. In my opinion it is different enough to be worth a warrant to add it as a language. Edit: Also, another interesting thing is you can do array programming with Julia so that would add even more ways to solve the challenges!
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Bumping this back up and checking in. I noticed Julia has had some interest a few times already being included in polls so just wondering if the interest is still there. I would very much enjoy doing these challenges in Julia with it being relatively simple syntax and still giving unique paradigms to solve them with. Julia is way more popular now too than it was even when I first posted and has gotten even more efficient and faster. A dynamic language that has speeds comparable to C sounds crazy but that is Julia.
Python is getting better with the GIL removal and multi-threading supports but Julia still way outperforms. Mojo is good for its niche but still new and more of a Band-Aid to extend Python’s capabilities (also no windows support). Ruby is still hit or miss and only around because of gems and legacy systems not switching to Crystal yet. I don’t know why Pascal is supported as a language and the only time I have touched it was forcefully to compile Cheat Engine using Lazarus. Ada is the better old language than Pascal since its more secure and stricter typing with still Pascal influences and also Ada has seen recent resurgences due to safety needs. Elixir and Gleam has seen some interest as well but me personally I prefer Gleam for a BEAM language.
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I, too, have been waiting for Julia to be available in CodinGame.
I’m a novice, but it’s a fabulous language that I wish more people appreciated.
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