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“Those people were our early converts—people who came for performance". That was entirely my case. After being using Python for a while and dropping to Cython in the performance bottlenecks (and evaluating other options), I was really longing for a language where I could have it all. When I first heard of Julia, in a highlighting package for Latex in the summer of 2013, my first thought was "oh no!, yet another high-level language, we already have Python people!". However, as soon as I read the "Why we created Julia" I just knew it was it, I finnaly could have my cake and eat it too. And in a matter of months I substituted almost all codes used in my half-the-way PhD to Julia.