I mean, I can't really guess the future, but I kind of feel it's not a simple case of "if you build they'll come" here. Python has a dominance over ML (and over

I mean, I can't really guess the future, but I kind of feel it's not a simple case of "if you build they'll come" here. Python has a dominance over ML (and over the academy in general) that is beyond any current language, but it didn't bring it's statistics ecosystem to the level of R (and statistics is much closer to ML than pure math and physics). That's because the ML ecosystem does work very well in isolation (it's mostly a black box regressor), and the natural path of evolution is not in different way of processing things, but ways of preprocessing things (for example, how to capture and treat images and sounds before applying the models). And in this marathon Julia is a very late runner, and Swift didn't even start properly running in this direction.