Overview - http://julialang.org/blog/2016/09/juliacon2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK3zRXhrFZY
"Julia: to Lisp or not to Lisp?" from the European Lisp Symposium in May 2016. I found it was rather illuminating on Julia in particular and lisps and programming languages in general.
Overview - http://julialang.org/blog/2016/09/juliacon2016