A recent alternative is to write the entire program in Julia. It is a lot less ugly than Numpy, and so performant that most code (other than steadfast libraries

A recent alternative is to write the entire program in Julia. It is a lot less ugly than Numpy, and so performant that most code (other than steadfast libraries such as BLAS and LAPACK) are written in Julia itself. http://julialang.org/ http://julialang.org/