Homebrew – Installing Julia Using Brew

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It appears that brew does not have a Julia formula. This is quite surprising to me, am I missing something?

Apparently there's a brew tap that can be used instead (staticfloat/julia). Before going for that solution I wanted to know if that's supposed to be the most straightforward way to do so.

Best Answer

You can install Julia using cask:

$ brew cask install julia

$ brew cask info julia
julia: 0.4.2
Julia
http://julialang.org/
Not installed
https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/julia.rb
==> Contents
  Julia-0.4.2.app (app)
  Julia-0.4.2.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia (binary)
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