Paul Romer, 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics, is dropping some bombs at #PyDataNYC 🔥

Paraphrasing: "Once a culture is established, it's very difficult to change. I don't know if #Julia will ever escape from the 'faster than #Fortran' early misleading claims"

(He continued to say that Julia is fantastic despite being bothered by these overly enthusiastic remarks, to which I 100 % agree)