Jeff has already answered that it is not intended to be only a scientific language, at his thesis defense, and reaffirmed that just two nights ago at a talk. If I can state the case correctly, they felt that if they made the best scientific/numeric/technical language, which was a much harder task than just creating yet another general purpose language, that in the end it would be also a good general purpose language.
I think there are some areas that need work to improve Julia for general programming, and for large scale projects, but I already find it more productive than Python, for example, for our work. It's also an incredibly flexible language, I believe the design of Julia has great "bones", and that's what will mean it will be a useful and relevant language for decades to come. On Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 7:25:49 AM UTC-4, Ford Ox wrote: > > How should be julia 1.0 seen when it is finished? > > Purpose: > Scientific language only? > Generous language? > Scripting language? > Easily scalable language? > Add yours... >
