In my opinion, Julia has everything you need to be productive in a scientific computing or academic arena right now. In fact, if you're in an atmosphere where t

In my opinion, Julia has everything you need to be productive in a scientific computing or academic arena right now. In fact, if you're in an atmosphere where there's a lot of chaining together various command line tools Julia actually does subprocesses and pipes quite well. As a more general point though, I work in an academic environment and I see tons of languages whizzing by. I routinely see C, C++, Python, R, Matlab, csh, bash, and the list just goes on and on. I've even seen someone write a command line tool in PHP that had no justifiable reason for being written in PHP. But it works, so whatever. If it was written in Julia, maybe it would be uncommon, but also slightly more refreshing. So, really, why not Julia?