In many ways, Julia is a better python than python, if only for the lack of the (quite insane in the 2000s) program structure by text formatting. That is a misfeature.

Julia is fast out of the box. You don't need Julia + some-other-language to get performance. You can use your GPUs fairly trivially from within the language (though this is implemented as FFI, it still has an idiomatic feel to it).

As for the previous comments on Perl, I am reminded of Mark Twain's famous retort. Rumors of its demise are greatly exaggerated.