The Julia Programming Language: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch | Stefan Karpinski | JuliaCon 2019", hN commenters recommend it as the definitive explanation, from a language designer, of why multiple dispatch makes Julia's composability work.
- talk recommended in 6 different months by 9 HN users, 2019–2025HN commenters recommend it as the definitive explanation, from a language designer, of why multiple dispatch makes Julia's composability work.
- talk recommended in 5 different months by 3 HN users, 2018–2022Strongly recommended for anyone working with vectors for its clear take on how they should be treated in types.
- talk recommended in 4 different months by 6 HN users, 2020–2021HN recommends it as an enthusiastic demo of spreadsheet-like reactive notebooks, which commenters think new notebook projects should copy.
- talk recommended in 3 different months by 4 HN users, 2018–2019Recommended in Julia threading threads as an insightful, simple explanation of the new task scheduler.
- talk recommended in 2 different months by 2 HN users, 2019–2022Cited for showing how Julia's metaprogramming can beat C and Fortran, along with sound advice not to overuse it.
- talk recommended in 2 different months by 2 HN users, 2019–2026HN cites it as the language creator's honest account of Julia's weaknesses, useful for anyone evaluating the language.
- talk recommended in 2 different months by 1 HN user, 2018–2021Julia fans point to it as a concrete example of Julia working for soft real-time robotics, especially when avoiding heap allocation.
- talk recommended in 2 different months by 2 HN users, 2021–2023Cited again and again as the concrete case study behind the claim that NASA got a 15,000x speedup moving from Simulink to Julia.
- talk recommended in 1 different month by 1 HN user, 2016–2024HN points to it as a real-world example of Julia used in safety-critical aerospace design.
- talk recommended in 1 different month by 1 HN user, 2016–2019Cited in APL and Julia threads as a neat way to run APL-style syntax at Julia's speed.
- talk cited on HN 3 times, 2016–2022Cited as the authoritative first-hand account of the Fortress experience and of numerical computing language design.
Questions
Which The Julia Programming Language video does Hacker News recommend most?
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch | Stefan Karpinski | JuliaCon 2019: recommended in 6 different months by 9 HN users between 2019 and 2025.
Is this every The Julia Programming Language video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.