Comparing with Python

[ChrisRackauckas]

@lobingera

Depends. If you want to contribute to e.g. code optimization some C, LLVM IR and internals and some background on femto-lisp would be needed.

Yes, if you’re one of the <10 or so people who have ever wanted to work on the very core of Julia, you need to learn this. If you’re one of the tens of thousands of people who want to work on Julia Base or its packages, you don’t have to. To a first approximation, you don’t have to.