Julia intrigues me and I'm on their mailing list but daily perusal of activity on that list has shown me clearly that Julia is still a long way from deciding what it will be when it grows up.

I quite like it and look forward to all the conceptual issues being settled and a stable version delivered. Lotsa' smart people providing input on that but that's both a blessing and a curse.

To much variety of intrinsic data aggregates for me but they justify that on it being compiled and very performance sensitive. Thus a lot of "you can do x on an A but not y. But if you must y, a B is provided instead.'