# Are there any plans (or interest in) making a Julia interface for VTK?
**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/are-there-any-plans-or-interest-in-making-a-julia-interface-for-vtk/11653
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 9, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/are-there-any-plans-or-interest-in-making-a-julia-interface-for-vtk/11653 "2023-06-09T16:44:40Z")
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### Author:  [@rexthor](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/rexthor)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/are-there-any-plans-or-interest-in-making-a-julia-interface-for-vtk/11653/1 "2023-06-09T16:44:40Z")
Are there any plans (or interest in) making a [Julia](https://julialang.org/) interface for VTK?
I use VTK from Python a lot, and the bindings are _great_ … the bindings for Julia are essentially nonexistent other than write-your-own (which, when I am doing it, is not-so-great).
The Julia bindings that [presently exist](https://juliapackages.com/p/vtkview) are very narrow in purpose.
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### Author:  [@rexthor](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/rexthor)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2023, 6:43pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/are-there-any-plans-or-interest-in-making-a-julia-interface-for-vtk/11653/2 "2023-06-09T18:43:45Z")
Ok completely gratuitous, I just wanted to make a markdown poll (haven’t ever done that before). If there were a Julia binding for VTK, would you use it?
_Poll ([view on site](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/are-there-any-plans-or-interest-in-making-a-julia-interface-for-vtk/11653/2))_
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### Author:  [@toddy](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/toddy)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2023, 3:52am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/are-there-any-plans-or-interest-in-making-a-julia-interface-for-vtk/11653/3 "2023-06-10T03:52:06Z")
Have a look at the wrapping tool code for Python and Java bindings and you’ll get an idea about what is required.
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### Author:  [@ffrancesco94](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/ffrancesco94)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2023, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/are-there-any-plans-or-interest-in-making-a-julia-interface-for-vtk/11653/4 "2023-06-12T13:19:17Z")
I, for one, would be very interested in it. @toddy Is there any documentation about these tools? The wiki is very old and I would like to understand more about it and see how much work it’d take. The fact that Julia uses multiple dispatch rather than being pure OO might be also a problem (?)
Francesco
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### Author:  [@rexthor](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/rexthor)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2023, 1:26pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/are-there-any-plans-or-interest-in-making-a-julia-interface-for-vtk/11653/5 "2023-06-12T13:26:34Z")
I have tried wrapping some C++ with Julia, and started to get an idea of just how big of an issue that was. There are some tools in Julia like [Cxx.jl](https://github.com/JuliaInterop/Cxx.jl), and a lower level package, [Clang.jl](https://github.com/JuliaInterop/Clang.jl) that save you the trouble of parsing the C++ “manually”. I’m interested enough to help, but I’m pretty new to Julia.
I’m also getting a better appreciation of the work that folks here have put into the bindings for other languages!
I think that the _wrapping_ part of VTK can be seen [here](https://github.com/Kitware/VTK/tree/master/Wrapping).
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### Author:  [@toddy](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/toddy)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2023, 1:30pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/are-there-any-plans-or-interest-in-making-a-julia-interface-for-vtk/11653/6 "2023-06-12T13:30:34Z")
Unfortunately there’s no documentation that I know of.
It looks like you can call **c** code from Julia so it should be possible to wrap VTK. [Calling C and Fortran Code · The Julia Language](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/calling-c-and-fortran-code/)
You can have a look at
`VTK\Wrapping\Tools` **vtkWrapJava.c** and **vtkWrapPython.c**