wtf is julia?

This repository is the official source code for the Julia programming language itself. Julia is a high-level, high-performance programming language designed for technical and scientific computing, fields like numerical simulation, data analysis, machine learning, and high-performance computing (HPC). It was built to solve a fundamental trade-off known as the "two-language problem": traditionally, scientists would prototype ideas in a slow but easy language like Python, then rewrite the critical parts in a fast but complex language like C++ or Fortran. Julia aims to be both fast and easy to write, eliminating the need for that rewrite. Julia achieves its performance through a just-in-time (JIT) compiler, instead of interpreting code line by line, Julia compiles functions to native machine code the first time they are called, using the LLVM compiler infrastructure. It also has a dynamic type system, meaning you do not have to declare variable types explicitly, but the compiler can infer them and generate optimized code based on those inferences. Julia natively supports multiple dispatch, a programming model where the behavior of a function is determined by the types of all its arguments, which enables clean and highly reusable scientific code. The repository contains the language's core runtime, standard library, command-line interface (REPL, the interactive prompt), and build system. It is not a framework or package, it is the language implementation itself. You would explore this repository if you are contributing to the Julia language, studying how a JIT-compiled dynamic language is built, or building the language from source for a custom environment. The tech stack for implementing Julia includes C and C++ for the runtime core, Scheme (a Lisp dialect) for the early-stage compiler (called flisp), Julia itself for the standard library, and LLVM as the backend compiler infrastructure.