Seven years ago, four individuals came together to create a fast and expressive programming language to compete with the likes of R, Matlab, Python and about three dozen other dynamic tools. Their work gave birth to the Julia programming language. Anthony Malakian takes an inside look at how some finance firms and economists are using Julia, and examines why 2017 could be a year of significant growth for the upstart.,Industry Issues & Initiatives,High Frequency Trading,Research & Commentary,Market Data & Data Analytics ,Tech,Julia programming language,Big Data,high-frequency trading,Federal Reserve Bank of New York,Berkery Noyes,Julia Computing (company),BestX Ltd.,AOT Trading AG,Conning, Inc.

Source: The Infancy of Julia: An Inside Look at How Traders and Economists Are Using the Julia Programming Language