People often talk about speed as an advantage of Julia (which is true), but the real secret advantage compared to any other language I've worked with is more of

People often talk about speed as an advantage of Julia (which is true), but the real secret advantage compared to any other language I've worked with is more of a network effect: composability I didn't appreciate the importance of this (or the degree to which this just works as a result of multiple dispatch), but there's a good talk about this from JuliaCon 2019 [1] by Stefan Karpinski [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9HwsxE1OY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9HwsxE1OY