How easy would it be to use Julia on a problem that would take advantage of the 16 hyperthreaded cores on my computer? Does it use threads, async/await mechanism, something else? Is it intuitive to use?
Julia's main parallel primitive (@spawnat) [1] is heavily inspired in Go, in which you just run anything in a managed lightweight thread, using a channel to pass data and sync with a fetch. That API is quite recent though (Julia 1.3), so there is still a lot of work going on both on the language side and on the library side to give higher level mechanisms, such as [2].
