Wait a minute! Can you embed Julia into a C program like Lua? Can it interface w...

_vya7 · on Jan 23, 2014

Wow. Okay, yes. It can be embedded[1]. It can call C code[2].

Julia may have just saved my project (which was dying because it needed a good scripting language that was fast)!

[1]: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/embedding/

[2]: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/calling-c-and-for...

mbauman · on Jan 23, 2014

And embedding (and its documentation) will likely get much better very soon.

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/4997

_vya7 · on Jan 23, 2014

One big pain point so far is that it won't be easy to actually embed Julia into my app. So users of my app will have to install Julia (probably via homebrew) before they can script the app with it.

_vya7 · on Jan 23, 2014

I foresee Julia overtaking PyObjC, RubyCocoa, Nu, and MacRuby as the scripting language of Mac apps. This looks incredibly perfect. You don't lose performance, so you can even do the hard stuff in Julia. Which makes bridging much less painful. Hoorah!