On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 13:25:56 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
On 5/6/14, 8:23 AM, bearophile wrote:
Paulo Pinto:
You can think of Julia as a dynamic language similar to
Python, with
optional typing and for such a young language, a quite good
JIT
compiler backed by the LLVM backend.
Unlike dynamic languages, at running time all variables are
strongly typed.
What do you mean?
Just a wild guess: that the compiler infers the type of a
variable and turns it into a static type. That would increase the
security during runtime (plugins, libraries, crackers).
