New programming languages are probably invented every day, and even those that get developed and published are too numerous to mention. New programming languages developed specifically for science and engineering are very rare, however, and that's why such a rare event deserves some publicity. A while ago, I saw an announcement for Julia, which announces itself as "a fresh approach to technical computing". I couldn't resist the temptation to download, install, and test-drive it. Here are my first impressions.
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Introducing Julia-1:Our first classification model that runs on almost anything.Learn more 👇https://t.co/YJCdEeIBSo pic.twitter.com/3cizsbG9ZB— Supersonic Labs (@supersonicai) September 26, 2026
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Yesterday @supersonicai released an open weight jev-like model called julia-1This demo shows julia-1 running locally on my M5 Macbook Pro doing ~1500 tokens/sec calculating a live call's scam risk and risk types.Even for this moderately complex task, julia-1 was able to do… pic.twitter.com/VYHRvrjyIS— Thomas Yu (@thommyyu) September 27, 2026
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