> I think their motto was "Walk like Python, Run like C."
I was also seduced by the concept of "octave, but with fast loops". This is really all that was needed. But I'm a bit disenchanted by the "advanced" additional features of Julia that add (unnecessary, in my view) complexity to the language. All that multiple-dispatch stuff, all those arbitrary types. I would love a compilation option that forced everything to be of the same type (a multi-dimensional array of numbers), and then it could really run like C, including compilation time.
I was also seduced by the concept of "octave, but with fast loops". This is really all that was needed. But I'm a bit disenchanted by the "advanced" additional features of Julia that add (unnecessary, in my view) complexity to the language. All that multiple-dispatch stuff, all those arbitrary types. I would love a compilation option that forced everything to be of the same type (a multi-dimensional array of numbers), and then it could really run like C, including compilation time.