Posted by fschmidt on
URL: https://mikraite.arkian.net/Might-Julia-make-it-as-Reactionary-Software-tp2997p3002.html

I hadn't heard of Julia and looked it up.  It looks well designed for its intended purpose of numeric and scientific computing.  It does not compete with Luan which has a different purpose which is applications programming.  In particular, Luan is a pure scripting language, unlike languages like Python and Julia.  See the first paragraph here:

http://www.luan.software/why.html