What did you say you wanted from Julia?

  • A "faster and easier MATLAB/Python"
  • Scientific simulations
  • Programming embedded devices
  • Easy to write parallel code

Hundreds* of people have learned to use Amber; don’t be easily discouraged.

  • AMBER user manual

*In version 11 and higher, this was changed to "thousands"

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a sceptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

Julia MATLAB R
Sample normalized Gaussian random variate randn() randn() rnorm(1)
Sample Gaussian random variate rand(Normal(mu, sig)) normrnd(mu,sigma) rnorm(1, mean=m, sd=s)
Sample χ² random variate rand(Chisq(ν)) chi2rnd(V) rchisq(1, df=d)
Sample β random variate rand(Beta(α, β)) betarnd(a, b) rbeta(1, shape1=a, shape2=b)