Ask HN: Ask HN: Should I learn Julia? (good investment now?)
I have some additional limited free time, would it be a good idea to invest in learning Julia (bullish on the future of the language), or not?<p>Julia has ~everything that made Python popular for general programming and data science, plus much more, without the flaws.<p>Some of these benefits  include super low cost abstraction, beautiful syntax, multiple dispatch, coroutines, hygienic macros, almost c like speeds, dynamic type inference, high productivity  etc<p>Coming in the next release is multithreading, package precompilation, Interactive C++ FFI, array and matrix views, Generational GC and more. After that there are plans for standalone binary&#x2F;shared library creation and handling of distributed, streaming, and out of core data sets.<p>Facilities to call Python and R alleviate the package scarcity to an extent.  There are the bugs though, but they should be ironed out.<p>Why wouldn&#x27;t Julia  become wildly popular with all this stuff , and thus would it be a good idea to get ahead of the curve?  Or, is path dependence on go, python, r, node too strong?