# Why Julia might be a good choice for scientific computation

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**Created:** [August 16, 2023, 2:05am UTC](https://forum.comses.net/t/why-julia-might-be-a-good-choice-for-scientific-computation/9445 "2023-08-16T02:05:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 2:05am UTC](https://forum.comses.net/t/why-julia-might-be-a-good-choice-for-scientific-computation/9445/1 "2023-08-16T02:05:18Z")

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> **[Julia's Value Proposition for Better Scientific Software](https://bssw.io/blog_posts/julia-s-value-proposition-for-better-scientific-software)**
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> Julia provides a mathematical front end to LLVM to provide easy and performant CPU and GPU access and lightweight interoperability with existing C, Fortran, R, and Python codes, coupled with a rich unified ecosystem for packaging, data science, and...

(don’t forget about [Introduction · Agents.jl](https://juliadynamics.github.io/Agents.jl/stable/) for your exploratory Julia ABM programming)