If your goal is to promote Julia, your comments here are having exactly the opposite effect on me.
Style aside, you can't simultaneously complain that Julia doesn't get the resources of a general-audience language and then talk down to "general-purposes folks". Julia could be the bees knees for math-y stuff. And if so, good for it. But Python's success is because its flexibility makes it pretty good for a wide range of things, even if it'll never be great for any one of them.
i bet u dont do numerical computing so julia ain't for u anyway.
i love python. in fact, in my daily run on cloud run it's one of the key component since it has a decent gcp client library for writing query code to bigquery.
but then i glue it up with bash and run some other analysis in julia.
i think you can have python, julia, bash, r, whatever. heck, i even dabled in go and react.
just saying julia is aimed at numerical first.
and i think 0-based indexing was merely a historical accident anyway due to lack of memory in early computers so use every last bit including the 0 even though it's not suitable for indexing but is suited for calculating mem offsets.
whatever, use whatever u like, not trying to promote julia to you or anyone else. just having a good argument on friday afternoon
Style aside, you can't simultaneously complain that Julia doesn't get the resources of a general-audience language and then talk down to "general-purposes folks". Julia could be the bees knees for math-y stuff. And if so, good for it. But Python's success is because its flexibility makes it pretty good for a wide range of things, even if it'll never be great for any one of them.