JuMP
Ranked 6 of 6 optimization solvers by recommenders
Free Julia package for building optimization models, praised for giving one standard interface to many solvers.
Free Julia package for building optimization models, praised for giving one standard interface to many solvers.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Useful for optimization in Julia
“Optimization, specifically the kind that JuMP tackles, is another field where teaching is probably easier in Julia”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Calculus with Julia” “Yes! This is a beautiful use-case, thanks to JuMP.”
Comment from 4 Sep 2026 in “How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language”
Other optimization solvers people recommend
The four most recommended other optimization solvers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Z3 SMT solver | 24 | 2 | 92% | 9 | — | Approved |
| MiniZinc | 6 | 1 | 86% | 5 | — | — |
| Google OR-Tools | 6 | 4 | 60% | 3 | — | — |
| OR-Tools CP-SAT | 6 | 1 | 86% | 3 | — | — |
| JuMPThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Optimization, specifically the kind that JuMP tackles, is another field where teaching is probably easier in Julia”
“Yes! This is a beautiful use-case, thanks to JuMP.”
“are all close to best in class in terms of quality”
“JuMP provides an standardise interface to interact with solvers”
“it only needs a few lines of Bash using OpenSSL”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.