Thomas Hasenzagl and Filippo Pellegrino, Now-Casting Economics Senior Economists
Julia reduced online query time from 40 seconds to 0.6 seconds – a 98.5% improvement. But Julia is not only faster, it’s also cheaper. The language is simpler and clearer. Software developers have less code to write, data scientists who communicate with them now use the same tool, there are fewer bugs, and no more ‘lost in translation’ moments between prototyping and deployment. Switching to Julia saved tens of thousands of dollars in programming time and debugging.