My use case is rapid development of new statistical methods. Julia seems ideal in some ways, as performance can be quite close to C / C++ / Fortran, while the

My use case is rapid development of new statistical methods. Julia seems ideal in some ways, as performance can be quite close to C / C++ / Fortran, while the code is more high-level. I don't care about GUIs, distribution, teamwork or maintenance. Julia seems promising, and there are some nice usage stories already: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/presentation/julia-in-parallel-and-high-performance-computing.pdf https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents... I am quite proficient with JVM-based stacks (Java, Scala & Clojure). But the level of performance, especially in terms of memory usage, cannot come anywhere close to C++.