Julia vs. D?

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 13:25:56 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> On 5/6/14, 8:23 AM, bearophile wrote:
>> Paulo Pinto:
>>
>>> You can think of Julia as a dynamic language similar to 
>>> Python, with
>>> optional typing and for such a young language, a quite good 
>>> JIT
>>> compiler backed by the LLVM backend.
>>
>> Unlike dynamic languages, at running time all variables are 
>> strongly typed.
>
> What do you mean?

Just a wild guess: that the compiler infers the type of a 
variable and turns it into a static type. That would increase the 
security during runtime (plugins, libraries, crackers).