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by StefanKarpinski 4344 days ago
Define systems programming. If you mean could you write servers in it, then yes (there's a web stack for it already). If you want to write an OS kernel in Julia, then you probably could, but I'm not sure you'd want to.
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There are times when having an English word for "no, well– yes, but I don't know why you'd want to" would be very useful. It'd have to be pretty short to save breath every time a computer scientist must answer the question, "But is it a systems programming language?"
Maybe 無 (mu) [0], which is something philosophically in between yes and no.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)#.22Unasking.22_t...

mu is more like "you've made a category error" or "the question makes no sense" rather than "technically yes, but you wouldn't want to" - which is what the post you were responding to seemed to be aiming for