How does nimrod compare to Julia?
Julia is dynamically typed and leverages LLVM's JIT support to generate efficient code at runtime. Julia has a clear goal of taking on the scientific and statistics domains where R, Matlab and Sci/NumPy are currently dominant. It is an elegantly designed language that provides blazingly fast bindings to established Fortran and C numerical libraries.
Nimrod is statically typed and compiles to C, C++ or Objective C. It seems to be aiming to be 'general purpose', but there has been efforts to position it as a systems level language. The biggest draw seems to be its expressive metaprogramming capabilities[0] and clean, python-esq syntax.