Hi, I really like the looks of Julia, but don't want to use it *yet*.
IMO, what Julia is really lacking is a (runtime choice of) industry grade garbage collector implementation(s). The reason I care is that I want to implement various immutable data structures in Julia. But such structures need a high performance (concurrent) garbage collector. I understand that my use-case is of less importance to the community, because Julia is targeted to do numeric computing. Nevertheless, Julia has been touted as a 'kind-of' lisp because of its homoiconicity and macros. And all important lisp implementations rely on high performance gc's. Why not Julia? Are there any plans to improve Julia's gc? Cheers, Robbert.
