And that's the pitch for julia. Oh, and mostly fast enough to write in julia the stuff that, for python, you'd write as C extensions, crucially enabling lots o

And that's the pitch for julia. Oh, and mostly fast enough to write in julia the stuff that, for python, you'd write as C extensions, crucially enabling lots of optimizations that are terribly hard to do for python. And avoiding the whole pypy / C api plugin problem. It's still pretty immature, but promising. That said, matlab's linear algebra syntax is still better than python's.