FWIW, I work on Web-related stuff in Julia (like <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shashi.github.io&#x2F;Escher.jl" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shashi.github.io&#x2F;Escher.jl</a>). I find Julia&#x27;s type system more natural for general purpose modeling of data than, say, Python&#x27;s classes. It&#x27;s also really easy to enforce things like immutability or make stuff blazing fast if one needs to with little effort. Julia&#x27;s multiple-dispatch is a great companion. On many occasions I&#x27;ve wondered if my code is even complete because it winds up being so small. Another thing to like is the hackability of any code. The standard-library is in Julia, you can look at any function&#x27;s code from the REPL, and many more developer friendly features.<p>Jonathan Malmaud, Iain Dunning, Randy Zwitch, Mike Innes (OP) and many others write and maintain general purpose&#x2F;web-related library code. I&#x27;m sure they will agree with some of what I said.