[leiroigh]

Some have been partially addressed.

But the main point is that the critique is misguided in its generality. If the author cares about running many small scripts that each take a handful of milliseconds, then julia is just not the right tool for his job. No need to write overly general angry posts like "julia is slow"; instead write "julia has sluggish startup time". This is to some extent unavoidable, since julia has a quite heavy runtime (need to load llvm). For some workloads, bash / python / perl are more appropriate tools.

To give you an example, `$ time julia -e "print(5)"` gives me about 230 ms, compared to python 35 ms.

The language is designed for longer running programs that compute heavy stuff. And it performs very well at its intended use.