This is totally missing the point of the Julia benchmarks. They were meant to show that you can implement fast low level code in Julia. That is why the python c

This is totally missing the point of the Julia benchmarks. They were meant to show that you can implement fast low level code in Julia. That is why the python code also had to be written with loops otherwise it would really just test the performance of a library and not the language. The point of Julia is to not have to deal with both C/C++/fortran and python code when creating a high performance solution. You don't always have a high performance library to utilize for your particular problem.