Post for ubioinfie #30
Description
As discussed on ubioinfie slack, it would be cool to write a post for their website (and we can mirror it here) that introduces julia for that audience https://ubinfie.github.io
- basic "getting started" kinds of things
- advantages of package management and things like BinaryBuilder
- differences from workflows for other languages etc
- performance advantages
@jakobnissen 's thoughts:
I think I'd be a good idea to focus on the selling points to the specific audience. For example, I doubt they would care much about multiple dispatch (since they won't have an idea about what it is), and about numerical libraries.
Maybe
- Great performance out of the box, removing the need for any kind of polyglot codebase, including C/Rust extensions, Cython and Numba, and all the shitty ways they complicate package installation
- Excellent, reproducible package manager, including manifests and JLLs
- How easy it is to shell out from Julia - the usability of Julia as a glue language
- The internals is in the language: How you can actually extend and work with your favorite packages in the same language you write in yourself without running into a huge C codebase
- The excellent multithreading support
I also think it would be nice to highlight some specific microbial bioinformatics tasks, but I'll have to think about that more.