> do I want integers like Python or integers like C? Yes. Julia has BigInt and Cint. Maybe there could be a more Pythonic implementation that scales between ma

> do I want integers like Python or integers like C? Yes. Julia has BigInt and Cint. Maybe there could be a more Pythonic implementation that scales between machine types and BigInt. That would not be hard to implement in Julia. I just have not found a good use case. What I like about Julia is that I can do both the high level and low level in Julia. Abstract code becomes concrete due to late binding. You can access Libc.malloc and Libc.free if needed. See GPUCompiler.jl The effect system exists. If you can prove no side effects, eager finalization is also possible. That is the finalizer and deallocation will run deterministically. It's new though so effect analysis is a mostly manual affair at the moment.