I think Python is less a disaster than it is a tool being used for something it was not designed to do. It's a pretty good scripting language, and it's a "good

I think Python is less a disaster than it is a tool being used for something it was not designed to do. It's a pretty good scripting language, and it's a "good enough" interface that implementers of C packages can expose powerful features, and that can only go so far. User's can't easily compose the powerful features that library designers didn't intent. Julia, on the other hand, was designed for the explicit purpose of high-performance scientific computing, with a syntax informed by the tools people already knew (python, MATLAB). It's no wonder it's so much easier to use.