On February 3, 2014 at 8:56:41 AM, John Myles White (johnmyl...@gmail.com) wrote:
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/02/julia/
Usually I love your blog posts and find your blog very interesting reading. But in this case I think you should spend a little more time to understand Julia and the people behind it before posting such strongly worded and judgemental posts. The Wired article grossly misrepresents what they themselves say - most of what you complain about is the hype of the journalist at Wired.
Please see the much more reasonable content at http://julialang.org/ and the discussion about this article on their mailing list:https://groups.google.com/d/topic/julia-dev/LPiZaSB2RPA/discussion
From my perspective as a user of many different programming languages for scientific computing (I'm a physicist), Julia brings the usefulness of Python (which you mention) but with the performance of c/fortran.
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/02/julia/