I'm not sure Julia is the most appropriate for this application. It's nominally general-purpose, sure, and you can run a web server from it, but you can do that with any language with a socket library and strings.
Julia uses libuv, the same library used by Node.JS, for its networking functions. Therefore, given better library support, Julia could be quite suitable for writing web applications. If you wanted to provide a web frontend to some numerical computation (as I think the Sudoku solver mentioned in the article does), such functionality would be quite useful.
I think that if you ignore libs, Julia is a better general-purpose language than other dynamic languages like Python or Ruby. Which is definitely not true for MATLAB :)
This is an ultra simple web app, that does some calculations on the backend that would be slow in Python (or I would have to preprocess the data).
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I'm not sure Julia is the most appropriate for this application. It's nominally general-purpose, sure, and you can run a web server from it, but you can do that with any language with a socket library and strings.
Would you make a website with MATLAB?
Julia uses libuv, the same library used by Node.JS, for its networking functions. Therefore, given better library support, Julia could be quite suitable for writing web applications. If you wanted to provide a web frontend to some numerical computation (as I think the Sudoku solver mentioned in the article does), such functionality would be quite useful.
I think that if you ignore libs, Julia is a better general-purpose language than other dynamic languages like Python or Ruby. Which is definitely not true for MATLAB :)
This is an ultra simple web app, that does some calculations on the backend that would be slow in Python (or I would have to preprocess the data).
The world is a nail. :)
In retrospect I know several people who probably would serve their website in MATLAB.