On 5/6/14, 10:41 AM, Chris wrote:
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).
Julia doesn't have a compiler. There's no compile-time and run-time
distinction. But functions are jitted before execution.
I don't see how that means "variables are strongly typed". If you mean
that at runtime they carry their type information, so do dynamic languages.
