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

Reminds me of the APL interpreter in Julia ( [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: [VIDEO] As a code generator for the Go assembler: [LINK]

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

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] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK]