In addition, all of these higher level languages popular in science seem to have pretty good support for calling existing C/Fortran libs when necessary. Julia is no exception, which makes it possible to take advantage of all the work that's been done developing optimized numerical codes.
That said, I would like to see something more automatic. In my limited experience, Julia's ccall works as advertised, but f2py in Python is much simpler to use.
In addition, all of these higher level languages popular in science seem to have pretty good support for calling existing C/Fortran libs when necessary. Julia is no exception, which makes it possible to take advantage of all the work that's been done developing optimized numerical codes.
That said, I would like to see something more automatic. In my limited experience, Julia's ccall works as advertised, but f2py in Python is much simpler to use.