> We were all going to heaven, and that right soon. The language wars would end, we would finally get a lingua franca for anywhere code performance mattered, Ju

> We were all going to heaven, and that right soon. The language wars would end, we would finally get a lingua franca for anywhere code performance mattered, Julia would take over the TIOBE Index, and we’d all be home for tea and medals. This type of thinking is so alien to me. A mainstream language like python has its appeals (like a large quantity of docs and many libraries), but TIOBE ranking? Language wars? Who cares about that? At the end of the day a language is a tool, nothing else (Matlab is a good example).