Not sure why this is on the front page because the criticism in this article is fairly superficial.  Julia was designed for scientific computing and interpreter start-up time doesn&#x27;t matter at all in this context, especifically the start-up time of hello-world.  Baseline memory consumption isn&#x27;t an issue either and one-based indexing is simply something to get used to.  If this stops you from being productive, it&#x27;s not the language&#x27;s fault.  The comments about the syntax remind me of all those people saying Lisp is a bad language because it has too many parentheses.