Thanks for the detailed response. I hope that my post wasn&#x27;t too harsh, the intent was mostly to attract attention to the current issues not to undermine the great work that you and others have been doing. I&#x27;m glad that many of the issues that I mentioned are being addressed. Maybe I&#x27;ll give Julia another go in some time =).<p>The question of syntax is subjective of course. From the set {C-like, Python, MATLAB} I&#x27;d definitely like to see more influence of the first two and less from the last one.