Yes. It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell (with apologies to Steve Jobs, who said that about iTunes on Windows, back when iTunes was not the mess it turned into later).
Mind you, I have huge respect for Cleve Moler and Matlab and all they have accomplished (making LINPACK and EISPACK and all that easily accessible). And they've worked hard to overcome the limitations of initially having only one datatype: a matrix.
But Julia as a modern general purpose language is just so much more pleasant to work with, while retaining nearly all of Matlab's power.
Mind you, I have huge respect for Cleve Moler and Matlab and all they have accomplished (making LINPACK and EISPACK and all that easily accessible). And they've worked hard to overcome the limitations of initially having only one datatype: a matrix.
But Julia as a modern general purpose language is just so much more pleasant to work with, while retaining nearly all of Matlab's power.