APL at Julia's Speed | Shashi Gowda | JuliaCon 2016

I just found that there's a Julia package for at least some APL syntax, perhaps an easy way to play. [3] is a fork updated for v1.0: [1] ▶ this video [2] link [3] link

In fact, it can get extremely close: ▶ this video And since you can define your own operators, you could just go all of the way.

Reminds me of the APL interpreter in Julia ( ▶ this video ). The APL code gets translated to Julia data structures, which is then mapped to Julia code, which is then compiled to machine code via Julia's JIT. I thought it was a pretty neat way to run APL.

Once static compilation gets off the ground, I wonder if Julia isn't an easier target for "high level LLVM". The whole language is built to be extensible, and people are already using it in comparable ways. APL implementation: ▶ this video As a code generator for the Go assembler: link