# What is Julia? Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. > [julialang.org](http://julialang.org/) %%LOGO%% # How to use this image ## Start Julia REPL Starting the Julia REPL is as easy as the following: ```console $ docker run -it --rm %%IMAGE%% ``` ## Run Julia script from your local directory inside container ```console $ docker run -it --rm -v "$PWD":/usr/myapp -w /usr/myapp %%IMAGE%% julia script.jl arg1 arg2 ```