Technically Julia is designed for general purpose computing. It just happens to be really good at numerical applications. The main thing holding it back is lack

Technically Julia is designed for general purpose computing. It just happens to be really good at numerical applications. The main thing holding it back is lack of tooling, debugging, and somewhat largish changes in syntax still. Having said that writing typed, expressive, and _performant_ DSL's in Julia is easy if not even kinda fun.