I definitely agree. And the common performance optimization metaprogramming (like 'do it this way for this type of input') works so much better with multiple dispatch, tag structs. Way ahead of C++ expression templates and much more pleasant than macros, concepts, etc.

Some of the lower-level APIs like those for concurrency were quite poorly thought out though, at least when I last used Julia. Condition variables don't have equivalent of pthread_timed_wait. Condition variables and channels APIs are not well integrated, design wise. I found so many such issues that it convinced me Julia wasn't general purpose enough. It felt like the features were a bit half-baked and had been hacked together by someone who knew their value but lacked the deep experience/knowledge to pull them all together into a single cohesive vision. Same issues as python, POSIX, etc.