[chillee]

I wanted to write something about Julia/Swift, but I had a bit of a hard time writing a cohesive narrative about them and ran out of time.

You can take a look at https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-does-julia-provide-t... for some of my questions.

Essentially, the biggest advantage imo is that Julia offers a single cohesive language, where compilers can do anything at the language level. I don't think this will allow for a single killer application - almost anything Julia can do ca n be simulated by some combination of Python/C++.

However, what might be true is that using a single language allows for much faster development and iteration than a combination of Python/C++. I think the way that'll manifest is in more and more high quality libraries coming out for Julia that are higher quality than the Python ones.

Maybe wait 5 years, and we'll see what happens :)