This is great news for Julia! As a long time Python user, I disagree with the insinuation of competition between the two communities. In fact, I've met all of

This is great news for Julia! As a long time Python user, I disagree with the insinuation of competition between the two communities. In fact, I've met all of the core developers of Julia and of the major Python data science projects, and they see each other as fellows and colleagues! For example, last year at PyData NYC, Stefan Karpinski gave the following talk, titled 'Julia + Python = \N{heavy black heart}' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsjANO10KgM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsjANO10KgM This past week, at PyData NYC, Stefan Karpinksi also shared the stage with Andy Müller (scikit-learn) and Jared Lander (author of R for everyone) to discuss the future of machine learning with the audience and addressed how the various tools, languages and communities fit together. In fact, most people may not realise, but Julia, Jupyter, IPython, numpy, pandas, matplotlib, &c. are all fiscally sponsored projects of the same 501(c)3 non-profit, NumFOCUS (which is the organisation that also runs the PyData conference series)! http://numfocus.org/projects/index.html http://numfocus.org/projects/index.html