Giving up on Julia (2016)
> For example, a trivial hello world program in Julia runs ~27x slower than Python’s version and ~187x slower than the one in C.<p>I don't think it makes any sense to speak of "__x slower" for hello-world.  Clearly, this is just a benchmark of startup time, so you only pay it once per program.  It should be reported as "__ms slower".<p>Julia startup (according to this post) takes 371ms.  That's 357ms slower than Python, and 369ms slower than C.  Faster is always better, but this doesn't seem so bad to me.<p>For comparison, on my old workstation here, starting a Swift repl takes 2724ms, and starting a Clojure repl takes 4792ms.