[tialaramex]

> C++ lets you get as close to the metal as you choose to

This only ends up being true (for any language, but it's too often cited for C++) in a pretty useless Turing Tarpit sort of sense.

So it's not "no reason" it's just sometimes impractical to solve some problems as well in C++ as in a language that was better suited.

Now people do do impractical things sometimes. It's not very practical to swim across the English channel, but people do it. It's not very practical to climb Mt Everest, but loads of people do that for some reason. Going to the moon wasn't practical but the Americans decided to do it anyway. But the reason even the Americans stopped going for a long time is that actually "that was too hard and I don't want to" is in fact a reason.

[sheepscreek]

Drawing from the analogies, what’s the Julia equivalent of them?