Julia solves a two-language problem but the real problem is a 3-wants problem which Julia does not necessarily serve well atm

[Barget]

@tim.holy

small binaries would be really really nice

Yes, yes, and yes! (never enough )

I tried to spark my colleagues’ interest in Julia. But binary size (and memory usage) was one of the main drawbacks. The other issue is the comparatively not-so-much developed ecosystem in the microservice world. But for that last part, it’s up to the community (which does its best) and some time.

In the end, I’m still the only one using it, but just for demanding topics with loads of mathematics.

Another nice improvement (I think it was an idea suggested by David Anthoff) would be to enable a “strict typing mode” in VS Code linter, so that type error would be caught at coding time (and not compile, or worst, run time).