[plinkplonk]

There is no technical reason that Julia can't be used for general purpose computing. (Well personally, I'd like nested namespaces, but) it is an amazing language. Just a matter of someone putting in the time to build the required libraries and glue code. Which will happen in time.

[elcritch]

The lack of AOT has been the main thing holding me back from adopting it for more general purpose computing. Now with AOT I can "compile" the code and get some reasonable expectation of performance and ease of deployment. I'm probably going to start using Julia and (hopefully) extending the web server packages. Basically it feels similar enough to JavaScript for web development but with more expressiveness, so I'm pretty excited by the prospect.

Now this turns up a terrible delima, do I try to use Julia or Rust for writing embedded controllers? Rust has macros and direct memory control, but the article mentions. :)

I also think the more of us that recommend Julia for general compute, the more likely it'll get used that way.