Julia feels like a Matlab++ with its one based indexing and `function end` syntax
Mojo is what you're thinking of
Also the VSCode extension has weird performance problems when trying to debug Julia code.
Can you expand on this? Julia's package manager IMO is one of the best parts of the language.
I don't think you'd actually want to include each of those packages in a standard distro: does the average user really need to programmatically send emails or deal with Voronoi tessellations? Probably not, but I still think there's value in a batteries-included approach, especially when working with students.