In case this is relevant to your reasons for posting … every time I see one of the fact free posts the slam Python to promote Julia it pushes me further from considering Julia for anything.
1. It’s designed by mathematicians specifically for math.
2. It has much better support for generic/runtime types, something the academics apparently describe using the terms “parametric polymorphism” and “multi-dispatch”.
Plus there’s this cute founding ethos blog post from 2012, though it’s necessarily vague: https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/
None of that sounds even close to convincing me to switch from Python, but I can see the appeal for people who value those typing features and want something faster.
I don’t necessarily see the connection between either of those things and the implementation above, tho… presumably it’s basically instant, anyway?
def from_offset(n: int): return n+1
Well-typed (or sightly-better-typed) programming ftw.