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Shah: Julia is the only non-C language with native CUDA codegen
“Apart from CUDA and C, the toolkits that NVIDIA puts out, Julia is the only other, you know, widely used language that has native CUDA code gen.”
Shah: Julia's JuMP framework beats any commercial optimization system
“And it's by far better than any commercial system out there”
Shah: Consulting is not a viable open-source business model
“Consulting is a way to build an open source business, but it's obviously not because you don't want your core devs to be consulting when you really need to be building the product.”
Shah: Open-core monetization fails by alienating the user community
“Open core models don't work very well because the community that was, you know sort of going with you starts hating you because all the good stuff is not there anymore.”
Shah: Central Bank of Brazil manages $1 trillion assets using Julia
“The Brazilian National Bank uses Julia to manage all of its trillion dollars in assets.”
Shah: Julia programming language has surpassed 1.2 million downloads
“We've had over 1.2 million downloads until today, even though the research is anchored at MIT.”