Why Julia?

This is a "why Julia" presentation. It's mainly meant as a teaser for people without any Computer Science background (you might find some of the terminology overly simplistic). I used it to explain to a group of non-systems biologists why I use Julia. Some of the reasoning behind the details in this talk can be found in this Discourse topic.

How to use

I used reveal-md. So you can download the presentation.md and run

reveal-md -w presentation.md

to see it locally on your browser. Or you can

reveal-md presentation.md --static folder2static

to generate a folder with all the needed files to host a static site of the presnetation. I hosted my presentation here on github. Google for answers on how to host a static website on github (e.g. this), it's easier than you think.

Acknowledgements

I've shamelessly copied stuff from @johnfgibson's why julia talk, this presentation, this detailed Discourse topic, this great presentation. Many thanks to @NiclasMattsson, @jonathanBieler, @antoine-levitt, @kevbonham, @mauro3, @Tamas_Papp, @alejandromerchan, @ChrisRackauckas, @Zach_Christensen, @stevengj, @mkborregaard, @Datseris, @DNF, @kristoffer.carlsson, @tobias.knopp and many more that helped with comments and suggestions.