As someone who has used both languages extensively over the last 6 years (Julia for grad school research and Python for my work as a data scientist), I'm always

As someone who has used both languages extensively over the last 6 years (Julia for grad school research and Python for my work as a data scientist), I'm always surprised at how quickly people rush to defend Python. "Yes, you can do that in Python too using such-and-such library or with this hack..." Don't get me wrong — the numerous Python libraries are impressive, but at the end of the day, for me personally the experience of using Julia is just far more pleasant than using Python. It seems as though I'm always fighting against Python to accomplish something, whereas with Julia it feels like the language just gets out of the way and lets me do what I want.