Why Julia Is the High-Paying Language You Should Learn in 2021

Julia Computing, founded by the creators of the Julia language, announced a $24 million (≈ ¥1.6 billion) Series A round led by Dorilton Ventures with participation from Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst and HighSage Ventures. The company plans to use the funds to further develop the secure, high‑performance JuliaHub cloud platform and expand the Julia ecosystem.

Originally created at MIT, Julia has been downloaded over 29 million times and is employed by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including AstraZeneca, BlackRock, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Moderna, Pfizer, NASA, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and the New York Federal Reserve.

According to the July programmer salary report, Julia ranks second in salary, with an average of ¥21,287 and a peak of ¥40,000, highlighting its strong compensation advantage despite being less popular than Python.

For beginners, the following learning resources are recommended:

1. Julia Scientific Programming (Coursera) – a free course covering four modules: writing simple Julia programs, understanding Julia’s computational advantages, working with Jupyter notebooks, and using packages such as Plots, DataFrames, and Stats. Course link: https://www.coursera.org/learn/julia-programming

2. Mastering Julia 1.0

The book is aimed at absolute beginners, starting from fundamentals and exploring new features in Julia 1.0. It teaches simple statistical and analytical tasks, explains Julia’s type system and multiple dispatch, and demonstrates graphics, data visualization, networking, and distributed computing capabilities.

If you plan to learn Julia in 2021, these courses and books should provide a solid start.