You know, I have been language-hopping for over a year now, in hope to find a secondary language I could learn beside the bread-winner Java. Trying to strike th

You know, I have been language-hopping for over a year now, in hope to find a secondary language I could learn beside the bread-winner Java. Trying to strike the balance between productivity and performance is pretty hard. I tried Go, it looks ugly (sorry). I tried Rust: it is beautiful in concept but I don't feel productive enough. I mean, maybe my use case is not align with Rust. My secondary lang should allow me to do more exploration in data analysis and not system programming. I looked and Nim/Zig and something else in between like Lua and Python (for the 4 times in 4 years I think). Nim is nice but the ecosystem is not there. Zig is also sys-programming focus. Python ecosystem is huge but I just don't feel like the perf is a killer. What I really love about Python is the list comprehension, i.e a_list = [(Ababa) for a in 1..100 for b in 'a'..'z'] for example. Until I found Julia, everything else is history. It seems to have everything I have asked for and more. Albeit that the precompile time is abysmal but I know I could use the sysiamge hack-around. I think I'd stick and be content with Julia! With VS Code's Julia extension plus the remote (SSH) development, I could do many "cool" things people do in Python except maybe more performant :-)