Regarding performance, I can only say that julia&#x27;s primary use case doesn&#x27;t really seem to be for small scripts that take a few msec to run.<p>The last set of programs I wrote in julia had run times of hours to days.  A few extra seconds of startup time is well worth the 10x or better improvement over using python for the same tasks.  The code was also tighter and easier to understand.  A win all around.