[pzone]

Agreed. I worked on the FRBNY research floor, this model has real mindshare with policy makers, porting it is a huge investment in the language. They may be training scads of RAs in writing and using Julia, many of them will go off and do PhDs later.

[grayclhn]

This also provides a lot of justification/support for those of us who'd much rather teach (say) macroeconometrics in julia instead of matlab.