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The announcement post for Julia was literally about all the things we love in other languages:

https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/

There is a certain set of languages that the Julia team is experts in. But the world of languages is very diverse and big parts of it are lacking representation, so we miss out on their insights. Eg I think most core devs are experts in C, C++, Matlab, Python, but not as many experts in Haskell, OCaml, Rust, Racket, Common Lisp, Clojure.

I'd like to find ways of attracting those other experts into our community, and making sure we use their insights whenever we can.

Always good to attract experts from other languages. I was mainly addressing the claim that Julia core devs like to crap on other languages, not trying to claim that we're experts in every language — obviously we're not. But saying that we're uninterested in other languages or unwilling to learn from them is simply untrue — we're a bunch of huge programming language nerds and we love programming languages, even some of the notoriously flawed ones like C++, Matlab and Perl.

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