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I don't think those sorts of things are a good use case for Julia. Julia is best used for deploying backend mathematics. I'm just suggesting the type system is beautiful, and if someone wanted to implement a more general purpose language with that type system it might be welcome.

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How is julia or it's type system not suitable for general purpose programming? Multidispatch seems like a generalization of python...and fields don't have to be typed.

general purpose programs in julia: https://github.com/shashi/Escher.jl https://github.com/essenciary/Genie.jl

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