I can't say that I like or use Julia, but just regarding your comment, and because I've seen similar comments about other languages around:

> 2. Julia uses an "end" keyword everywhere, which is imho too verbose (and the corresponding "begin" is missing so it's inconsistent).

This is an absolutely childish approach to comparing or selecting programming languages.

In my eyes, it says a lot about the maturity of software development as a discipline that a big chunk of our debates are at this level.

We should discuss about quality, breadth and depth of standard libraries, quality of implementation of the most common interpreters/compilers, etc.

I don't want to fault you personally, OP, I think this approach is quite widespread, unfortunately, one could say that it's part of our software development culture at this point.