Great response, thanks! I am sure Julia will keep growing in use and influence. BTW, really off topic, but I am sometimes inconvenienced by the opposite problem of being very used to using older languages like Common Lisp (and to a lessor degree Prolog) that are still very relevant but are losing mind share. On the other hand just this hour an old customer contacting me to do work in Common Lisp and Prolog so there is still some interest in older languages.
Do you think this might just be people wanting something familiar "at the bottom"?
E.g. both Swift and Julia (and Rust, and Clang ...) have a common underlying backend (LLVM) in common, whereas in Common Lisp, it's ... Common Lisp all the way down, and it could potentially be a much better world, but it would just require duplicating too much stuff to be a viable candidate?
