Julia’s Mechanisms for Incorporating External Code: A Deep Dive

Alex Tantos
JuliaZoid
Published in
5 min readAug 13, 2023

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Julia, a high-level, high-performance programming language, offers a variety of ways to bring external code or libraries into your current workspace.¹ Three of the most commonly used mechanisms are using, include, and import. In this article, we'll dive deep into the differences between these three, complete with examples to illustrate their usage.

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Assistant Professor of Text and Computational Linguistics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Language data analysis and modeling enthusiast.