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Keynote. Professor Steven G. Johnson | JuliaCon 2019
Steven G. Johnson, MIT professor and FFTW co-author, gives a JuliaCon 2019 keynote on metaprogramming and staged programming in Julia, showing how it enables high-performance numerical code and when not to use macros.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited for showing how Julia's metaprogramming can beat C and Fortran, along with sound advice not to overuse it.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- The Julia Programming Language
- Topic
- julia metaprogramming
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2022
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If anyone is looking for video recommendations to get started: here’s a couple that I thought were great and should be interesting and approachable to just about anyone. Steven G. Johnson’s keynote address. It’s longer format but really interesting, informative, entertaining and well delivered. The …
eigenspace on Hacker News · 2019-08
In JuliaCon 2019 VideosYou can write slow programs in all languages. There are many cases where Julia's language features enable higher performance than in comparable C libraries. Have a look at Steve Johnson's keynote from JuliaCon 2019: [VIDEO]
ViralBShah on Hacker News · 2020-10
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