> And for someone who is not terrible interested in programming, except as a way to get things done, that is what matters most. For what it's worth, I found th

> And for someone who is not terrible interested in programming, except as a way to get things done, that is what matters most. For what it's worth, I found that taking the plunge into julia is what made me love programming. I'm constantly amazed by how easy it is to whip something up myself that before I would have relied on a built-in routine in another language. Doing this made me a better programmer and more capable of doing the things that 'matter most' as well. Plus, whenever I whip something up myself, I try to share it with the community either as it's own package or as a PR to an existing package, so I get to feel involved in the progress as we get to the sort of ecosystem you would find acceptable.