I think it's more like Julia is what happens when "language geeks"/experienced programmers write a language that's for technical computing, with a deep understanding of their problem domain and empathy for their users.
Strings in Julia are meant to be addressed in for loops; they index by byte not character because it's slow to index by character once you include Unicode. Julia trys, in general, to give you control over low-level things rather than hiding them with magic.
I like Julia because it's homoiconic, because of it's type system, because multiple dispatch is fun and new, and because it's just plain fun to write. I do static analysis, not math/science.
Strings in Julia are meant to be addressed in for loops; they index by byte not character because it's slow to index by character once you include Unicode. Julia trys, in general, to give you control over low-level things rather than hiding them with magic.
I like Julia because it's homoiconic, because of it's type system, because multiple dispatch is fun and new, and because it's just plain fun to write. I do static analysis, not math/science.