I don't think julia is going after R's niche. They're going after matlab and sklearn/pandas/numpy. so my 02 on julia's value prop: free. performant. scalabl

I don't think julia is going after R's niche. They're going after matlab and sklearn/pandas/numpy. so my 02 on julia's value prop: free. performant. scalable. capable. easy to use is there, but the others matter a bit more.