I've been writing "scripts" with it that extract multi GB data sets using various APIs, perform relevant processing, and spit out actionable visualizations and

I've been writing "scripts" with it that extract multi GB data sets using various APIs, perform relevant processing, and spit out actionable visualizations and data. The APIs are (these days) mostly web/REST-ish, though I'm starting to work on writing some wire-protocol stuff as well. It (Julia) is an amazingly powerful language today. Excellent for data scientists and engineers, for deep and complex analytics. I am using it in a professional (e.g. paid) setting. Along side python, C++, and other things.