So I'm happy to announce version 1.0.0 of node-julia, a Julia engine embedded in node, and io.js now too. It's been a pretty long road and I owe many people (perhaps reading this now) a lot. I've said many times (maybe not on this forum) that enabling people is the important part and I hope this tool does that.
Some of the new features supported since my first update here (in Sept). * both asynchronous and synchronous processing <---- uses libuv (inside joke) * use of Javascript typed arrays were possible * Julia composites in JavaScript as (the opaque) JRef * functionalized Scripts All those keywords are probably not that interesting, but I can share this which might be. I've done some early testing on simple matrix multiplications (will blog, but not done), and it turns out it's actually faster to copy the array from JavaScript into the Julia engine multiply and then copy the result back out than to use JavaScript directly for most matrices (maybe not 3x3). And when compared to the other popular linear algebra packages for node, Julia-within-node can be a lot faster -- sometimes 1000x faster.
