Did Modular just reinvent Julia?

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@jacobusmmsmit

performance-optimised Julia read or feel like different languages.

That can be true, but in a scale different from interpreted languages. For instance, in this thread a highly optimized code obtains “only” a 6x speedup relative to the most natural implementations. Not 20x, 200x. The code without the optimization is still useful, and that optimization was a last resort. With other languages one simply cannot proceed before rewriting the critical parts, because the codes becomes too slow even for testing.