> Honestly, I see Julia as the up and comer here. Julia has IMO the best syntax, is JIT compiled, is a real programming language, and is IMO python done right.
I think Julia is very exciting, and yes, the core language is very good. But so far I see very little uptake outside numerics. Hopefully it will get there.
It's got the support in the core language. That's what is so exciting to me ... its not just numerics, its an excellent programming language in and of itself, before you even get to the interesting type system.
It is JIT compiled, though some of us who like to deploy apps would love to have an AoT compilation. Likely we could work around that with a singularity container on linux.
Unlike many other languages, parallelism is a first class citizen, be it SIMD, GPU, distributed machine, and combinations.
It also works very nicely on FBSD 11.x. I've tried compiling it on recent 12.x nightlies, but not had great luck.
I am actively looking to find projects to work on in it.
I think Julia is very exciting, and yes, the core language is very good. But so far I see very little uptake outside numerics. Hopefully it will get there.