Apart from the library ecosystem, what attracts you to Julia?
> square(x) = x * x
> @code_typed square(2.0)
CodeInfo(
1 1 ─ %1 = Base.mul_float(%%x, %%x)::Float64
└── return %1
) => Float64
> @code_typed square(2)
CodeInfo(
1 1 ─ %1 = Base.mul_int(%%x, %%x)::Int64
└── return %1
) => Int64
julia> square(x) = x^2
square (generic function with 1 method)
julia> @code_native square(1)
.text
Filename: REPL[3]
pushq %rbp
movq %rsp, %rbp
Source line: 1
imulq %rdi, %rdi
movq %rdi, %rax
popq %rbp
retq
julia> @code_native square(1.0)
.text
Filename: REPL[3]
pushq %rbp
movq %rsp, %rbp
Source line: 1
mulsd %xmm0, %xmm0
popq %rbp
retqI strongly prefer the dependency management system to python's efforts.
I like the strong arithmetic precision management facilities.
Dynamic programming is interesting, but I'm not sure that its great for collaboration.