I hope you're excited about Julia by now. The friendly, expressive, and intuitive syntax, the powerful read-eval-print loop (REPL), the great performance, and the richness of both built-in and third-party libraries are a game-changing combination for data science in particular—and programming in general.
The foundation we've laid in the previous chapters are now strong enough to allow us to develop pretty much any kind of program using Julia. Hard to believe? Well, here's the proof—in the next three chapters, we'll develop a web-based game with Julia!
It will follow the narrative of the internet-famous Six Degrees of Wikipedia. If you've never heard of it, the idea is that any two articles on Wikipedia can be connected, using only the links on the pages, in six clicks or fewer. It is also called six degrees...