"A Comparison of Three Programming Languages for a Full-Fledged Next-Generation Sequencing Tool" selects...Go?

The question is not whether this is doable (it trivially is, since it has been done in another language), but whether someone will do it.

IMO writing and optimizing ~10 kLOC is not something one does just to prove a point about Julia; so unless someone has an interest in the actual tool itself, it is very unlikely that it will be done.

But that said, I think we should learn to wrap our heads around the fact that Julia is becoming a mature language that already has a track record of being fast and convenient, so there is not a big pressure to prove this in every context if there are no other payoffs. Because of this, I find it kind of heartening that people are not stressing too much about the shootout benchmarks, because I think it means that they are just busy using the Julia productively, or improving the language or the libraries.

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