Why the creators of Julia just launched a startup

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> and it’s more contemporary than open-source languages R and Python

Really? Python? Python has some amazing data tools mate. I don't really see the point of Julia if numba succeeds in its goals.

That's a big if, though. Optimising Python is really hard – even Google gave up on their efforts to do it – and even with amazing projects like PyPy it's very unlikely it will ever have predictable C-like performance.

It already gets C like performance reasonably predictably. Its not a tracing JIT, like pypy...it restricts the dynamism of python to be able to do type inference.

The thing is, we still don't have the beautiful julia type system, multiple dispatch, macros, better syntax for technical computing easy distribution etc

Julia was at the top of my list of new languages to learn, but the lack of a real code encapsulation (i.e. real modules) just left me cold.

Could you give an example of what you were missing?

I've never heard that criticism before, you will have to be specific for someone to take what you are saying seriously.

http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/modules/

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