it's surprisingly good. it feels much more like a general language than matlab does. i have been using it privately as a "faster python" and have been very ha

it's surprisingly good. it feels much more like a general language than matlab does. i have been using it privately as a "faster python" and have been very happy with it (but for work that is arguably still mathematical in nature - generating procedural art and looking at block ciphers). in fact, i didn't realise it was intended to be a matlab replacement at first. i just looked at the specs and thought it looked interesting (i still haven't used the interactive dohickey (ijulia)). if you come to it from that pov, the only thing that seems odd is the 1-based indexing (and if you're old enough to have used fortran then even that doesn't feel so strange).