Wow, that’s a great response — and I certainly see your point. Firstly, I would like to lay this to rest: Julia is considered statically typed, but can be manipulated to type dynamically. I don’t consider supporting parametric polymorphism that can manipulate types something that changes that, mostly because it’s generic.

I think that saying “ Julia == ‘faster than C’” in the article definitely should have been done better, something more like “ In some situations, Julia can be faster than C.” Maybe even reiterating that it is only a few operations that the Julia language is more setup to perform with its features.

Of course, there are many more situations where C will compile faster than Julia compiling faster than C.

I suppose you are right, the original articulation (and lack of clarification) of those words are particularly misleading. Your original comment I suppose was interpreted by me as “ I don’t believe this is possible!” when it is true, however I now see what you mean — and a little clarification would have been nice.