[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125728] New: Feature request - adding Julia language for scripting in Calc

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728

            Bug ID: 125728
           Summary: Feature request - adding Julia language for scripting
                    in Calc
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Calc
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: anton.kochkov at gmail.com

Julia is a multiple-paradigm (fully imperative, partially functional, and
partially object-oriented) programming language designed for scientific and
technical (read numerical) computing.

https://julialang.org

Performance gains range in the range from 10x-30x over Python (R is even
slower, so we don’t include it. R was not built for speed). Industry reports in
2016 indicated that Julia was a language with high potential and possibly the
chance of becoming the best option for data science if it received advocacy and
adoption by the community.

Well, two years on, the 1.0 version of Julia was out in August 2018 (version
1.0), and it has the advocacy of the programming community and the adoption by
a number of companies (see https://www.juliacomputing.com) as the preferred
language for many domains — including data science. And 1.2 version is almost
ready as well: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/milestone/30

Advantages of Julia (compared to Python)

- Performance
- GPU Support
- Smooth Learning Curve, and Extensive Built-in Functionality
- Multiple dispatch or the multimethod functionality
- Distributed and Parallel Computing Support
- Interoperation with other programming languages (C, Java, Python, etc)

Moreover, Julia Computing offers the JuliaInXL package - Julia integration with
Microsoft Excel:

- https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2017/10/24/julia-in-xl-intro.html
- https://juliacomputing.com/products/juliafin.html#excel
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Kr37uqtm4


See more at:
-
https://medium.com/@thomascherickal/will-julia-replace-python-and-r-as-a-data-science-tool-897efcf18b73
-
https://www.analyticsindiamag.com/can-julia-be-the-new-python-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

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