Meh. For my purposes, Julia strikes a quite nice balance of fussiness versus permissiveness.

Sure, there's things where I find it too fussy and I wish it'd go "yeah yeah I get what you mean" and there's also things where I find myself thinking "man, I really wish you had complained to me about that, it was clearly a bug / bad style!"

But all-in-all, I find it's a language that mostly gets out of my way and lets me code, which I find very useful and nice for scripting.

I think if one finds things like scoping rules annoying for scripting, that might just come down to just knowing and being more familiar with another language that has different rules.