Julia — because, Numerical/HPC in C++ is a PITA
Quick refresher — Julia (°) is a new numerical computation oriented language that, under the hood, uses the old/proven C/C++/FORTRAN libraries we all know and trust. It, like Python, supports rapid, interactive prototyping while achieving performance on oar with the selfsame C/C++/FORTRAN. And yes no need for “accelerators like PyPy/Numba. Read on for how the Celeste project (°°) uses Julia to process 178TB of base data, 30TB/day of daily data , and petabytes of scale factor . — https://goo.gl/NiHo6 y And yes, this is exactly why Julia — the biggest motivation for it was to be able to have a semantically appropriate code base… (°) https://julialang.org (°°) The Celeste project is the first comprehensive catalog of visible objects in our universe, and is based on the SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) — https://goo.gl/r3wmxo