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> One thing I really missed in Julia is Object Oriented Programming as a first class paradigm.

Julia peeps would tell you that the multiple dispatch used by Julia is a generalization of OOP. And that they like multiple dispatch

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Yes indeed. While Julia does generally eschew the "model.fit(X,Y); model.predict(new_data)" style, it's not because it's functional, it's because it's dispatch-oriented, which is arguably a superset of class-based OO, and even perhaps arguably closer to Alan Kay's claimed original vision for OO than modern class-based OO is.

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