Let's be real - how many people really learn shell programming? Most of it is figuring stuff out as you need it (if ever) because for most developers it's not t

Let's be real - how many people really learn shell programming? Most of it is figuring stuff out as you need it (if ever) because for most developers it's not the main part of their job. Some reasons not to use Julia is that it isn't available everywhere, it's fairly new, slow to start up and very few people use it for this. The last point matters when you need to work with other people; if you're by yourself on your own machine, go wild and use whatever you like.