I don't know, there is a lot of us who moved to Julia without doing R, or using Python as a stats language. There is a lot of people wanting to use things like

I don't know, there is a lot of us who moved to Julia without doing R, or using Python as a stats language. There is a lot of people wanting to use things like JuMP and handle numeric types where a single value is things like probability curves, and you want to use regular libraries with them, without having to rewrite those libraries. Julia is really it's own beast, way way beyond R / Python. It is friendly towards R dev's but, people who normally had to hack stuff in Fortran, C++, etc love it.