That comment you linked is amazing - it steps back a little bit and gets our head of out the dirt to see the horizon. As a bunch of programming ostriches try to

That comment you linked is amazing - it steps back a little bit and gets our head of out the dirt to see the horizon. As a bunch of programming ostriches try to muck about this or that - the author instructively dictates that general purpose programming languages are part of the toolbox to get the job done...on an operating system of choice. We need to listen to people that have gone through the experience of putting complex systems together and their learnings are immeasurably valuable. This is the eternal balance of theoriticians and practioners. It also further cements something that I always felt but can be offputting to some people - Julia is an academic language used by academicians. From a software engineering perspective (not computer science, mind you), there is much to be desired.