[edgyquant]

I just don't like the BASIC derived syntax of Julia (and Ruby.) I wish there was a language that was typed, had python like classes, subroutines and lambdas but JS like anonymous functions that was fast like Julia or at least close to numpy in number crunching without needing a module written in C.

[cycomanic]

Have a look at Nim, I was presently surprised when I recently tried it out. Now if there was just a better way of integrating with numpy it would be my goto language for writing computation intensive modules for python.