Which paper(s) to read on Julia design?

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I had a good time reading Jeff Bezanson’s phd thesis:

GitHub - JeffBezanson/phdthesis: phd thesis document source

My I suggest some posts? (the threads are very interesting in general)

Is Julia's way of OOP superior to C++/Python? Why Julia doesn't use class-based OOP?

Despite the fancy name, the expression problem is definitely a stumbling block you’ve encountered many, many times in object-oriented programming, wether you knew what it was or not. From the OOP side (as opposed to the functional language perspective, where it is also a problem but looks quite different), it is simply the problem of trying to add a new operation to existing types. For what it’s worth, I go through this in depth in the video I linked above, but some people prefer written explana…

Julia motivation: why weren't Numpy, Scipy, Numba, good enough?

I guess I can give some historical motivation here. When we started working on Julia in 2009, the Python ecosystem was nowhere near where it is today: PyPy was pretty new: 1.0 was released in 2007 – it was the first version to be able to run any substantial Python apps and there were no plans at the time for supporting any of NumPy; Cython was even newer: initial release was 2007; Numba didn’t exist: initial release was in 2012. Even NumPy itself was a bit rough back then. It’s entirely possi…