Julia Dispatch

In this episode of the Julia Dispatch, hosts Christopher Rackauckas and Michael Tiemann dive into the world of machine learning and compiler engineering with core developers Billy Moses and Avik Pal. We pull back the curtain on the future of high-performance computing in Julia, tracking the evolution of revolutionary compiler tools like Enzyme.jl and Polygeist into their latest groundbreaking coll...

Happy New Year! In this episode, we welcome back Leticia Madureira, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, to explore her journey into quantum chemistry, her passion for Julia, and her work in computational chemistry. Leticia shares her experiences as a PhD student, her contributions to the Julia ecosystem, and her vision for the future of quantum chemistry simulations. Leticia Madureira is...

Merry Chrismas to all who observe! Today, we dive into the world of Makie.jl with its core developers, Simon Danisch and Julius Krumbiegel. We explore the origins of Makie, its unique design philosophy, and its role in shaping the future of visualization in Julia. Simon and Julius share their journeys into Julia, the challenges of building a flexible and performant visualization framework, and the...

Join Chris Rackauckas and Stefan Kastanov for an in-depth discussion of recent developments in the Julia programming language community, with a special focus on JuliaCon 2025 and exciting technical advances. 🎤 JuliaCon 2025 Recap The unique grassroots nature of JuliaCon and why it's different from typical academic conferences How the community-driven approach fosters collaboration over compet...

Today we're joined by Jesper and Philip from Cognibotics, a Swedish robotics company that has (co-)developed something truly unique: Juliet, a statically-typed dialect of Julia designed specifically for real-time robot programming, along with its runtime system Romeo. Our guests share their personal journeys to Julia and explain how they've adapted the language for industrial robotics appl...

In this episode, Chris Rackauckas and Michael Tiemann welcome back Firoozeh Dastur, a theoretical mathematician and PhD candidate from Germany working on tropical geometry. This marks the first time someone has returned to the Julia Dispatch podcast! Firoozeh shares her journey from Pakistan to Germany, her pivot from K3 surfaces to tropical geometry, and how she discovered Julia during the pandem...

Chris and Guillaume discuss the contents of the "This month in Julia world - 2025-08". We cover the upcoming JuliaCon Local Paris event, Julia 1.12 beta release updates, major compiler improvements with JuliaLowering.jl, performance optimization discoveries, and ecosystem growth with new packages like TestPicker.jl, BorrowChecker.jl, and AI integration tools. We also dive deep into techn...

Good morning, good evening, good night, wherever you are in the world! Today we welcome Jacob Zelko, who takes us on a fascinating journey from his early days as a biomedical engineering student through his work at the CDC during the COVID-19 pandemic, and into his current exploration of applied category theory. Jacob shares how his pandemic response work led him to seek more fundamental approache...

Join Chris Rackauckas and Stefan Krastanov as they explore the latest developments in the Julia programming language ecosystem from the March 2025 "This Month in Julia World" newsletter. Link to the newsletter: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/this-month-in-julia-world-2025-03/127821🔥 Key Topics Covered:Julia 1.12 Beta 1: Major features including experimental --trim for smaller binarie...

Today, we're joined by Stefan Krastanov who is not only the main developer of QuantumClifford.jl, but also the author of the "This month in Julia world" newsletter. Stefan shares with us what passions him about physics, the combination of mathematical concepts and hands-on signal processing and what attracted him to Julia. And he confides in us how the Julia newsletter is a productiv...

We're back from our surprising hiatus with a very exciting round: Firoozeh, Leticia and Skylar. Their Julia journeys crossed in their engagement with the Julia Gender Inclusive and DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives. We briefly talk about their personal stories before delving into the inclusiveness topic. We discuss the impression and perspective of female participants at a so...

Today, we start a new series. Chris and Michael discuss the contents of the "This month in Julia world - 2025-02". We cover enhancements to Revise.jl, the introduction of JET.jl as a new language server, advancements in compiling Julia for embedded systems, challenges with multi-threading, improvements in the package manager, and the refactoring of the Julia compiler. We plan to make thi...

Today we're joined by Simon Christ who is "the computer guy in a biological department". Moving from rock solid C, advancing to C++, he discovered Julia when he had been frustrated enough by his prior programming experiences. Simon has fixed the PGF backend for Plots.jl and as time goes by found himself among the current project leads. Simon shares with us his experience about maturi...

This is a special episode of the Julia Dispatch podcast where we have a panel discussion with climate scientists and Earth observation specialists to talk about Julia. In this episode we talk with a litany of experts in climate modeling, satellite data analysis, and data visualization a multitude of questions like: what inroads has Julia made into the climate sciences community? What are Julia's s...

We start the year with a first: first time Chris and Michael meet a stranger through Julia Dispatch. Today, we have Kyle Conel on the show who is the main developer of the game engine JulGame. Kyle shares with us how an early passion about video games has made him switch majors in college to become a software developer. He talks about how he's learning by doing, how you can start in Julia with an...

It's our final episode-of this year. Today we are joined by Dr. Karandeep Singh who shares his story from gamer to doctor and how the realization "You can continue writing code-just do it in whatever field you go into" has led him to his current role. He then introduces us to the Tidyverse and Tidier.jl, tells us a bit about its origin story and how Tidier.jl being available in Julia might be anot...

Today, we're especially grateful for Guillaume's patience with us (it's pronounced Gi-yohm!). He shares his story going from beginner to maintainer in no time, discusses why it's so important to help each other without judgement, and reveals the surprising connection between Modern Julia Workflows and DifferentiationInterface.jl. We had a great time together chatting about open source software, an...

In this episode, we sit down with Παναγιώτης Γεωργακόπουλος. We discuss the evolution of the Pluto project and the user experience philosophy behind it. Παναγιώτης shares with us some of the technical and design challenges that come with it, but also how far reaching some of these principles can be. And we discuss, how open source projects and community development can come together and reinforce...

Today, we talk with someone who might or might not be the man himself, but is definitely one of the co-creators of the Julia programming language: Jeff Bezanson. Jeff shares with us some of the origin story of Julia and how multiple dispatch found its way into the language. Then, we dig a bit deeper into the recent advancements of static compilation of Julia. Jeff explains why we had to wait so lo...

Welcome back, friends! Today, we exchange with Alex and Yassin about their Google Summer of Code project working on Symbolics.jl. They tell us their road to Julia and to their joint Google Summer of Code project, more specifically. They discuss the motivation behind the project, the challenges they faced, and the progress they made. They also touch on the importance of open-source code and the fut...

Hello, world! In this first episode, we sit down with Dr. Tim Holy. He shares with us his origin story: how he has become an early Julia adopter, how Revise.jl and package pre-compilation was born and how we can create tools that help Julia developers to write high-quality code. Tim Holy is the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine in St....