It’s a solid combination of performance, easy syntax and flexible environment. A big drawback of Python is that any performant code is actually written in a low

It’s a solid combination of performance, easy syntax and flexible environment. A big drawback of Python is that any performant code is actually written in a lower level language, with foreign function calls. That’s not to say that there are no disadvantages to Julia. I personally see Julia as a beefed up, new and improved R.