Julia, as we know it from our very first introduction, takes the best from both worlds. It matches Python in terms of ease of code and maintenance, while it targets to achieve the speeds of C.
But what if we really need to make outside calls to code or functions written in these two languages? We then require the ability to import the code directly into Julia, and be able to make use of it. Let's see, one by one, how Julia manages to make external calls to these two programming languages.
C can be called as the mother of modern-day programming languages, and most of the languages today use C somewhere in their source codes to either make their code run quicker or just to add a wrapper over an existing C function or library.
Julia also makes use of C in some of its libraries, although most of the core libs are written in Julia itself. There are some things that make Julia stand apart from the crowd when it comes to calling C. They are as follows:
- Make...