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Re:Some Insights from a Julia Developer by fasquoika on Saturday October 14, 2017 @11:26AM (#15472565)
For the most part, no. The language and community are significantly math oriented. However, if you're someone who likes to learn languages just to broaden their horizons a little bit, Julia might be a good choice. It's one of the few languages in common use which has multimethods (the other major one being Common Lisp). Actually, in general Julia is surprisingly Lispy for a language with Algol-family syntax.
Re:Some Insights from a Julia Developer by stevelosh on Saturday October 14, 2017 @12:30PM (#15472898)
> Actually, in general Julia is surprisingly Lispy for a language with Algol-family syntax.

It's less surprising if you know there's still a version of the Julia REPL that works with sexpressions: https://youtu.be/dK3zRXhrFZY?t=5m58s