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Obviously the comment above is far from helpful in tone or content, but this spurred me to look it up. As a python guy, my takeaways are:

1. It’s designed by mathematicians specifically for math.

2. It has much better support for generic/runtime types, something the academics apparently describe using the terms “parametric polymorphism” and “multi-dispatch”.

Plus there’s this cute founding ethos blog post from 2012, though it’s necessarily vague: https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/

None of that sounds even close to convincing me to switch from Python, but I can see the appeal for people who value those typing features and want something faster.

I don’t necessarily see the connection between either of those things and the implementation above, tho… presumably it’s basically instant, anyway?