Small tidbit, I'm guessing it might more likely be the case that Julia is inspired by Fortran, and Fortran inspired matlab, not the other way around. That said

Small tidbit, I'm guessing it might more likely be the case that Julia is inspired by Fortran, and Fortran inspired matlab, not the other way around. That said, as someone who used python (got my phd just a few years ago so I'm younger) while the rest of my cohort used matlab because their professors used it, I am happy now that I never have to worry about licensing or running things on my own PC, and yes, it's an actual programming language and an actual platform for development so, it's definitely easier for me now that I'm actually working. Also, thankfully scipy gives me a .mat reader so I still can send and receive data from colleagues.