The library is still more sparse than other languages, but for implementing methods on your own there is no better alternative. Also for using existing libraries and functions, I found pycall to be very fast and easy to use.<p>I also used rcall a little and while not as nice as pycall was still simple to use and allowed access to any functionality I was interested in. I&#x27;ve heard good things about ccall&#x2F;Cxx but haven&#x27;t had a chance to use them yet.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;julialang.org&#x2F;teaching&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;julialang.org&#x2F;teaching&#x2F;</a> has some examples of where it is being used for teaching