TLDR: Will the Julia grow to a significant fraction of python's popularity and capability for general, web and data science programming?<p>I was looking at python for a good general purpose scripting language, .net libraries, etc with statistical and data science capabilities.<p>It seems that despite the success and burgeoning capabilities, The pydata ecosystem has inherent limitations (that I would bump up against in my use cases).<p>So I turn to Julia a purportedly general purpose language that excels at numerics, with easy python interopt to ameliorate the current embryonic state of libraries.<p>Sounds great, but the analyst in me is looking for one language that is versatile while still fullfililng my data analysis requirements... I don't want to invest in an ecosystem that will stagnate in terms of general programming, web programming, data science and job demand.<p>I feel bullish on Julia, but not completely sure. I would be quite grateful for everyone's thoughts on this?<p>Thanks
The CrossValidated site on Stack Exchange, which is devoted to statistics and machine learning, had a question on this with some solid answers: <a href="http://stats.stackexchange.com/q/25672/5836" rel="nofollow">http://stats.stackexchange.com/q/25672/5836</a><p>My take is that I'd really like Julia to take off (I would really like to be less penalized for writing loops), but libraries, and especially libraries that allow people to use it as an analysis language (rather than for writing their own bespoke stuff) is essential.
I have been working with python for years. I tried Julia a few months back. The core language is well designed but the surrounding libraries are still far from mature. I found myself dipping into python through pycall for basic needs like URL downloading. That said, I will be going back again :-) The community is very responsive. It used to make me wonder whether the core team ever took a break.
TLDR if you are willing to contribute where Julia lacks, pl go ahead. Else, if you are looking for a stable environment, you are better off with python.
I dont think they can yet interopt. I would try zeromq there is some example code for both. Julia is improving rapidly and it has lots of tools, but only for data analysis. If you want create a web service for exampe you are better off with Python.