I did not know this programming language and found it very interesting. mainly because it is similar to Python.
There have been numerous articles linked to HN about Julia, I suggest you check in more ;)
This looks really cool, I've played with Julia a bit, but a Light Table introduction might be just the thing to make me dive deeper into Julia and start trying out Light Table a bit.
Still waiting for PyPy to eventually replace CPython as the reference implementation. Even though they still have a bit of catching up to do.