I wish Julia was much more Lisp/Scheme-like in terms of syntax. If they'd just focused on making a more performant, typed-Scheme (or improving one of the exist

I wish Julia was much more Lisp/Scheme-like in terms of syntax. If they'd just focused on making a more performant, typed-Scheme (or improving one of the existing ones), that would be much more interesting for me. I took a dip in to Julia recently, and found it to be a mishmash of Lisp, Haskell, Matlab and Fortran ideas, wrapped in Python-like syntax. I guess that can be appealing for people coming from those worlds, and for those for whom speed trumps everything else. For me the loss of a Lispy syntax and the price of working with a relatively immature language wasn't worth it for me. I'd just rather use something with reasonable performance that's more Lispy.