Python isn't the competition for satellite image processing. That is very much a C++ world. The existing code is already so absurdly optimized that you're not g

Python isn't the competition for satellite image processing. That is very much a C++ world. The existing code is already so absurdly optimized that you're not going to compete on that basis. Where you can compete is the code is also absurdly complex and it's very hard to find developers who can productively use it. If Julia can get close to similar performance but be much easier to understand, that could be a huge boon. Someone needs to be a first mover, though. The unfortunate thing I've seen in the satellite world is companies think they can take Java developers and teach them C++ and the transition will be seamless. It definitely isn't, but the basic OO concepts and syntax is similar enough that the idea is easy to sell. Trying to sell these huge enterprise and government systems on a programming language that hasn't even existed for a decade won't be easy, in contrast, no matter how simple and no matter how performant it is. Somebody is going to need to step up and just do it, with or without some huge corporate or government sponsor.