This document introduces Julia, an open-source programming language for technical computing with features like high performance, multiple dispatch, and ease of use. It has over 500 packages and 700 contributors. Julia bridges the gap between computer science and computational science by allowing for both high-level programming and high performance via just-in-time compilation. Its type system helps express scientific computations and improves performance. Other features include object-oriented programming with multiple dispatch, native parallelism, and domain-specific languages like JuMP for optimization. Julia has comparable or better performance than other numerical computing languages.