Agreed. Julia seems like it could really become a competitor to MATLAB (unless you rely on fancy toolboxes). I think their blog has some nice posts: http://jul

Agreed. Julia seems like it could really become a competitor to MATLAB (unless you rely on fancy toolboxes). I think their blog has some nice posts: http://julialang.org/blog/ http://julialang.org/blog/ especially these seem very interesting: http://julialang.org/blog/2013/03/julia-tutorial-MIT/ http://julialang.org/blog/2013/03/julia-tutorial-MIT/ It's also a huge plus that they can pretty much call any python inline: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/jdj.mit.edu/~stevenj/IJulia%2520Preview.ipynb http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/jdj.mit.edu/~stevenj/IJulia%... So we have the fall back python libraries and can do plotting etc..