Julia aside, Keno, kudos for being an absolute class act and replying to everything so politely.

For what it's worth, my impression of Julia has been overwhelmingly positive, and all the developers I've interacted with have been polite and friendly. I haven't made the switch from Python because:

- I prefer the Python syntax

- I like Python libraries (I know about PyCall, and it rocks)

- The increased speed of Julia doesn't really add much given numba/theano and so forth

However, I really like:

- Optional static typing for sanity checking

- Can write fast functions directly in julia - which is handy when passing callbacks or doing numerical routines like integration (although this requires timholy's fast lambda package)