It is cool to have options. I do actually like Go, but Julia is my favorite. Still a bit surprised that Julia is almost never mentioned in Crystal discussions.

It is cool to have options. I do actually like Go, but Julia is my favorite. Still a bit surprised that Julia is almost never mentioned in Crystal discussions. If you love Ruby, and want something with higher performance, then Julia is a pretty natural next step. Sure it does not have the same syntax. Maybe I am just getting old but when Ruby came out, that was cutting edge. It was a fresh new way of writing code. I had all the cool stuff. I you want that same kind of feeling today, where you got super awesome modern features, meta-programming galore, functional programming, you name it, then Julia is it. Julia is the new Ruby. Sure Ruby is a very object-oriented language and Julia is more functional, but that is where the industry has been heading these last years. And Julia is a pragmatic version of functional programming which I think most people can easily become accustomed to.