Interview with the Julia language creators in The Programmer magazine (Chinese)

[Jiahao Chen]

摘要：一群科学家对现有计算工具感到不满：他们想要一套开源系统，有C的快速，Ruby的动态，Python的通用，R般在统计分析上得心应手，Perl的处理字符串处理，Matlab的线性代数运算能力……易学又不让真正的黑客感到无聊。

Abstract: a group of scientists are dissatisfied with existing computational tools: they wish to have an original/pioneering system,
with the speed of C, the dynamism of Ruby, the useability/widespread
use of Python, the ease of statistical analysis à la R, the ability to process strings like Perl, the ability to do linear algebra operations like Matlab... to be easy to learn, yet not be boring to real hackers.

http://www.csdn.net/article/2014-03-12/2818732

[Roger Luo]

Hi Jiahao Chen,

I'm an undergraduate student in University of Science and Technology of China, and working on Bohm trajectories in the key laboratory of quantum information of CAS. After I used Julia0.3 in calculating the Bohmian mechanics I think it's much better than cpp or python in Science.

I heard from Hao Xu,the drone guy, who said he was with your guys in Boston last year,that you are one of the developer. And it's pretty weird that I didn't find any Chinese community on the julialang.org since there is other communities. And few people use this language in my university (at least among people I know)

Is there any Chinese User Group in China? I just started a student club in USTC(University of Science and Technology of China) called USTC Julia User Group, and if there is a community mail-list about Chinese users and if there a Chinese community I hope we can stay in touch. And I think it would be more convenient for Chinese users to ask questions in Chinese.

BTW,is there any possibility to start a juliabox service in inner-China? I found accessing this is really hard in inner-China. If it's possible, I can help to establish one in my university with members in lug.(https://lug.ustc.edu.cn/wiki/) but I think I would need help cause I only used Julia to program for my questions in the lab before.

在 2014年3月14日星期五 UTC+8上午10:06:49，Jiahao Chen写道：

[Viral Shah]

Is it difficult to access JuliaBox in China because of Google authentication?

-viral

[Sisyphuss]

I tried it in China last Christmas. Anything using Google service (e.g. google api, google font, google ajax) is extremely slow and often inaccessible. 

[Eric Forgy]

Out of curiosity (and sorry for off topic)...

How is Github in China? I like that the experimental Discourse forum can be authenticated with Github. Would it make a difference for JuliaBox in China if it was authenticated with Github as an alternative?

Making Julia friendly for Asia seems to be a good path to massive adoption. Btw, any Julians here in Asia? I'm in HK.

[Viral Shah]

PRs welcome. It is easy to add new auth mechanisms to Juliabox now.

-viral

[Sisyphuss]

GitHub was blocked between Jan 20, 2013 to Jan 23, 2013 in China. 

Now it is accessible in China. However, Gist may be still blocked. 

All in all, it is much more available than Google.

Btw, I'm Chinese, but I'm in France currently.

[Roger Luo]

if there si no VPN in China,it would be hard to access google services and there seems to be international export limitations(which may also led to the Xcodeghost happened in China)