>appeal to people who make the sort of things end users want > lowers the bar for mere mortals such as myself to do package development That's a powerful comb

>appeal to people who make the sort of things end users want > lowers the bar for mere mortals such as myself to do package development That's a powerful combination. I've been close to contributing to Python packages a few times, but the overhead is pretty high. At this point, I also feel like it would be a waste of effort not to write stuff in Julia instead. > Julia will someday eat Python for scientific computing It's well on the way. Julia users have a reputation for being evangelists. Heck, I made a convert even before I actually started using Julia in earnest: my labmate had a problem he couldn't solve in his favorite language, and I encouraged him to try Julia -- it turned out great!