I didn't know GSL could be used right out of the box. That's good to know. The declarations part is pretty nifty too. I can't believe I didn't notice that befor

I didn't know GSL could be used right out of the box. That's good to know. The declarations part is pretty nifty too. I can't believe I didn't notice that before. Perhaps easy for you and probably not super difficult for most people considering CL, but it's still a bigger pain than having 1 single tool that can build fast code with very little hand optimization, REPL, analysis libraries, built in plotting, and with a familiar syntax. Thanks for all the comments though. You pointed out parts of the CL ecosystem aren't nearly as bad as I thought. You should consider some blog posts if you've done this sort of thing before!