[seertaak]

> I should have been more clear that Julia takes a different route to Object Orientation (multiple dispatch instead of classes).

I think your original comment was fair. I've looked at Crystal and Julia and find both projects really exciting. That said, it's hard to see why one would prefer Crystal's class/object model to Julia's. Multimethods + operator overloading is just insanely powerful and elegant. It's one of Julia's real strengths and allows for a new level of code reuse.

I wish Julia had a more python-like syntax (I don't want to open a can of worms with this comment but do feel that Python's popularity is at least to some degree attributable to a aesthetically pleasing syntax.), and I wish its syntax were more regular (I'm sure the Mathematica function definition style will lead to problems with tooling, linters. C++, to my mind, shows the perils of an overly-complex syntax, and Julia, in a well-meaning attempt to entice scientists, risks doing the same.). But in every other sense Julia is just fucking awesome.

That said - Crystal is pretty cool too, and if you're a ruby programmer I'm sure it's a compelling language to use.