> Third, it annoys me that some people keep saying Julia is faster than C. No, it isn't. It's generally slower, but in the same ballpark. It's fast enough that

> Third, it annoys me that some people keep saying Julia is faster than C. No, it isn't. It's generally slower, but in the same ballpark. It's fast enough that you never have to go to another language for speed, but it's _not_ faster than C. But that's definitely good enough for an awful lot of numeric work. Personally, I kinda like Julia because it's a little closer to R, and I hate hate hate doing analytical work in Python (ML/programming in the larger is fine). I do agree that this is a terrible blogpost though, but Julia does have some advantages. I wanted to start evangelising it when it was 1.0, but that was not a great launch (IMO, obviously). They did it a little too quickly, before all the library authors had updated.