This concludes our whirlwind review of Julia. It is worth re-emphazing to the reader that Julia is not yet v1.0, so some of the features described may be deprecated or permanently changed as you read this book. The Julia documentation and its code listings provide all the answers and hopefully you will be able to find your way around these by now.
In this chapter, we addressed a variety of topics that should be of use to you in moving from a analyst/programmer to a contributor and developer.
We began with a peek "under the hood" to find out why Julia does what it does and quickly. At present, most computer languages utilizing LLVM do it via a separate compilation stage. The magic of Julia is that it takes a conventional-style procedural code and takes this way down to the machine level in a single process.
Then we continued with thoughts on some tips and techniques that will be of help in creating enterprise-quality Julia code and covered topics such as testing, profiling, and debugging...
