Singular in Julia

Singular in Julia

Introduction

Julia is a programming language designed by mathematicians with a background in Pascal, Lisp and Python. It provides a sophisticated, modern language which is especially suited to doing mathematics.

Julia includes the following features:

• Jit compilation (via the LLVM backend)
• Parametric type system
• Interactive console
• IPython notebook support
• Profiling
• Bignum support
• C/C++ foreign function interface (e.g. access to GMP, flint)
• Package management system
• Full native Windows support including Windows 64 (via Mingw2)
• Modern IDE
• Numerous mathematical types (matrices, polynomials) and packages for numerical mathematics
• Metaprogramming
• Parser library
• Good community support and hundreds of packages
• Ability to easily call Python

Goals

There are two primary goals in the medium term:

• Singular binding in Julia
• Write a Singular interpreter in Julia
• Extending the Singular language with Julia and Python
• Extending Singular to have multiple dispatch

Some long term goals might include:

• A singular compiler

Planning

A sketch of our planning for the project is available on our planning

Progress

• Building Julia/Cxx/Singular (see Building-Julia-with-CXX)
• Calling Singular from Julia (see Accessing-Singular-from-Julia)