[mjwalshe]

and most users of this sort of languages aren't going to be running it on windows but on Unix systems.

[oneofthose]

From my experience, a fair amount of scientific computing is done on Windows through Matlab.

[kib2]

Are you insinuating that Windows users are too stupid to use those languages (and use only rotten ones like V.B etc. ) ​​?

Please, be a minimum objective and constructive.

[ajdecon]

I doubt it was intended as an insult. Julia (and other scientific languages) are often used in clustered environments, and Linux is much, much more common than Windows in HPC.