I’ve been fairly interested in the Julia programming language recently. Haven’t heard of it? From the project website: “Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing.”
From what I understand, it’s a programming language intended to provide a high-level programming interface with similar features to R / Python / Matlab at near C-level speed. Sounds pretty intriguing right? The language is fairly new, so its ecosystem is not as mature as R’s or Python’s.