> Julia will lack enough libraries, especially on the unscientific part (GUI, databases, network, all the other stuff you need). Yes, but this is rapidly impro

> Julia will lack enough libraries, especially on the unscientific part (GUI, databases, network, all the other stuff you need). Yes, but this is rapidly improving. Julia has Gtk bindings that have seen a lot of improvement over the past two months. There are ODBC and SQLite interfaces, a MySQL interface is in progress, and probably others. Julia has the advantage that you can write fast bindings in pure Julia, which alleviates the extra cognitive and tooling overhead of writing extensions in C. Building a language ecosystem is a bit of a ponzi scheme - but it has real potential for a great payoff at the end!