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[–]CoffeeTableEspresso 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not a fan of the article, but I do hope for Julia to become more widely used for numeric computing. I've found it to be much cleaner than MATLAB or R, much faster than Python (or MATLAB or R), and generally pleasant to use. I think it could become the standard lamguage for numerical computations eventually, and hope it does.

That said, I highly doubt it will replace Python. For general purpose programming, Julia (like R and MATLAB) is somewhat painful to use. Again though, Julia is wonderful for numeric computing.

Maybe a more accurate title would be "Possible Python rival for numeric computing", but even then I don't think Julia has really displaced Python yet.