[daedalus_f]

As for Julia, I mean I like the matlab like syntax for data science use, and I’m sure its great for prototyping computation heavy algorithms where run time dwarfs the JIT lag, but its surely not suitable for a text editor, at least at present. I’ve tried Julia several times as new versions of have been released and for simple scripting tasks that required a few external libraries I’ve always ended up rewriting the script in Python because the scripts were faster to run from start-up, more consistent in performance (no unexpected pauses to re- pre-compile) and simpler (no messing around getting packagecompiler.jl working etc).

[Fishysoup]

My experience has been the opposite: things have been much easier and faster to set up in Julia. Yes, "time to first plot" is annoying after you update the plot package, but that's the only annoying thing for me.

Julia is a thinly disguised Lisp, offering all the wizardry associated with that language family - so it's very expressive.