Interesting, I've had the opposite reaction. I find it to be about the nicest programming language to work with. I even started writing a little toy database in

Interesting, I've had the opposite reaction. I find it to be about the nicest programming language to work with. I even started writing a little toy database in Julia, and find it really easy to reason about. Package management system is its only weak point IMO. It makes a lot of counter-intuitive decisions (having to build a package from the packages directory? that's just strange). Cargo / Bundler to me feel like the gold standard in package management... most alternatives I've seen would be better off just copying those workflows unless there's a really good reason to try something new.