[cbkeller]

I think some people may expect it to be something that it's not. I'm probably a broken clock on this point but it's really a fundamentally different programming paradigm (dispatch-oriented) than most anything else, and organizing your code in a way that expects and works well with that paradigm (and what that means for how code is compiled) is, in my opinion, critical. If that works well for your problems or the way you like to think about things then great, if not then you may come away quite frustrated.

Try to fight against dispatch and squeeze Julia into OO or functional or etc. paradigms and you're Gonna Have a Bad Time, in my opinion.